Answer:
During the war, Japan suffered some of the worst hunger in any of the nations involved in the war: out of 1.74 million military deaths from 1941 to 1945, as many as 1 million were due to starvation. During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, the Japanese controlled food supplies and priority was given to the Japanese soldiers as they needed it to sustain themselves at battle. As a result, the locals were severely deprived of food and water.