Mamoru Shinozaki
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2011
ISBN: 9789814328524
Syonan My Story is the biography of Mamoru Shinozaki. Born in Japan in February 1908, he became a journalist after graduating from Meiji University. He later joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry and was sent to Berlin as a press attaché in 1936. In October 1938, he was posted to Singapore. While in Singapore, the British convicted and jailed him as a Japanese spy. During the Japanese Occupation, he risked his life to save thousands of locals from being arrested and detained by the military police through his liberal issue of personal safety passes and the creation of safe havens. During the war crimes trial for the Sook Ching Massacre, he was a key witness for the prosecution. Mr Shinozaki passed away in the early 1990s.
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