Malaya, then under British administration, was gradually occupied by Japanese forces between 8 December 1941 and the Allied surrender at Singapore on 15 February 1942. The Japanese remained in occupation until their surrender to the Allies in 1945.

The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the Malay Operation (馬来作戦, Maree Sakusen), was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the Second World War.

2024年12月3日 · On December 8, 1941, the Japanese launched their invasion of Malaya, synchronizing it with attacks across the Pacific, including Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. Under the command of Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese forces made amphibious landings at Kota Bharu in Malaya and at Pattani and Songkhla in Thailand ...

2015年5月19日 · Shortly after midnight on December 8 th, men from the 8 th Indian Infantry Brigade, based at Kota Bharu, were shelled by the Japanese Navy, which was covering an amphibious landing by Japanese infantry. The attack on Malaya had begun and the RAF was ordered into action.

Japan had significant economic interests in Malaya before the war, including plantations, iron mines, commercial fishing and a variety of small businesses, and the invasion has sometimes been seen as a move to secure control of the peninsula's agricultural and mineral output.

"Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942."

The Japanese occupation divides the twentieth-century history of Malaysia into two parts, 1900–40 and 1945 onward, and has often been described as a major watershed, an event that put an end to the old order and created a new.

In December 1941 the Japanese began their war efforts to secure and dominate the entire Far East. It was the first phase of a three-phase strategy ultimately aimed at placing the Japanese

A summarized timeline of the Japanese Malayan Campaign, beginning from the Attack on Pearl Harbor to the Fall of Malaya. December 7-8, 1941: The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Simultaneously, Japanese troops in Southeast Asia land in Patani (Thailand), Singora (now known as Songkla, Thailand), and Kota Bharu (Malaysia).

Japanese (Un)preparedness for the Occupation of Malaya Sandra Khor Manickam, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. The Japanese invasion of peninsula Malaya began on 8 December 1941 with troops landing in southern Thailand and the northern states of Malaya.