Hitoshi Hirakawa & Hiroshi Shimizu 
Japan and Singapore in the World Economy [PDF ebook] 
Japan’s Economic Advance into Singapore 1870-1965

This pioneering work examines Japan”s economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors shed new light on issues such as:* prostitution* foreign trade by Kobe”s overseas Chinese* fishermen in the inter-war period* Japanese economic activities during the Pacific War* Japan