Question

True or False: Local populations living under Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia refused to collaborate because they found Japanese rule considerably harsher than that of European colonial administrations.

Answer 1

Answer: False

Explanation: During the 1941-45 occupation of Southeast Asia, the Japanese Empire posed a rhetoric of 'co-prosperity and coexistence' to the people, stressing a universal Asian brotherhood. Japan claimed that their intervention through occupation would help shake off the control of Western oppressors and colonisers.