THE JAPANESE FISHERIES BASED IN SINGAPORE, 1892-1945

This paper examines the main factors behind the rise and decline of th e Japanese fisheries based in Singapore before the Pacific War, and sh ows that, as the fisheries contributed, greatly to the Singapore econo my, they did not constitute a foreign economic enclave in the British colony. It also describes how the Japanese and local fishermen conduct ed fisheries during the period from 1942 to 1945, and argues that the legacy of the Japanese fisheries outlived the Japanese occupation.