A human perspective of Occupation

WE are all familiar with the horror stories about the Japanese Occupation of Singapore - whether from textbooks, museums or first-hand stories from those who lived through it. We are often told the Japanese were oppressors who staked babies, shot men and raped women.

In Rising Son, a play by Cultural Medallion recipient Dick Lee, all these truisms still very much exist, but they are carefully sidelined to make way for a different perspective - one that is …