Note the only person having a belt with the ammo of buck shots. Note also his shoes and stockings wrapped with putties. At a first glance he looks Chinese, but apparently he had been staying in Malaya for 2 years and was the owner of a photograph shop in the Kinta Valley. He was the one who would organize and bank roll all the hunting expeditions and supply the ammunition. On such trips he would draw routes and maps of all the areas and also take photographs. He was a Japanese who was sent as a spy to prepare the ground work for the invasion of Malaya.
When the Japanese landed and as the Allied troops were pushed back, this man came out one morning in full dress of a Japanese Colonel complete with a pistol to receive the advancing Japanese troops. This was as we all know one of the reasons the Allied forces fell back so fast as the Japanese had all the intelligence to capture vital installations and location of allied troops.
the Japanese man is Suzuki. He was in charge of enemy properties in Ipoh for awhile during the occupation. He provided for the Tiger hunts before the war. The shotgun ammo were sponsored by him. This photo was probably taken near Ipoh.
He was positively identified in this photo by Insun Sony Mustapha Fenner 's uncle a few years ago. The uncle worked for him.
Insun's uncle worked for him at the enemy properties office in Ipoh before Suzuki was transferred elsewhere.
I thought the photo of Suzuki's studio was in Malacca
By the way, according to Insun 's uncle, Suzuki was a tall man unlike most Japanese soldiers. He remembered him as slightly stooped.
this man is suzuki the photograph studio owner in kuala kangsar. He was also the royal palace trusted photographer. My father wrote abt him in his "The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain". He used his hunting licence to good use, mapping out strategic info for military use. Also look up a FB page entitled Experience of WWII by Kenji Oda. The interview with my Uncle Osman described Suzuki the photographer-hunter-spy. He was also in the Japanese Fujiwara Kikan team.
The Fujiwara Kikan (F-Kikan) was named after its leader, Major Fujiwara Iwaichi, chief of intelligence of the Japanese 15th Army, initially stationed in Bangkok in late 1941. Fujiwara's staff included five commissioned officers and two Hindi-speaking interpreters. Fujiwara's motto was that the intelligence activity for Imperial Japanese Army is "ultimate sincerity".
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 15th Army was tasked with the invasion of Malaya, during which time F-Kikan rescued Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah and his family. His son (and future Malaysian Prime Minister) Tunku Abdul Rahman made a radio announcement urging the Malay people to cooperate with Japan. F-Kikan also attempted to mobilize the anti-British Young Malay Union, but since most of its leadership had been arrested by the British shortly after the start of the war, its impact was minor. The F-Kikan was also instrumental in establishing relations with Indonesians resistance movements against Dutch colonial rule, especially in A
In the F Kikan's intimate involvement with the palace of various states in Malaya (especially the Perak royalty) the F Kikan discovered a very deep resentment over how the British had forced their way into the affairs of the state after the signing of the Pangkor Treaty. The deep hate that existed among the locals (in Malaya, India and Indonesia) became the main source of strength that fueled the success of the invasion of Malaya. It was the fight for independence from the colonial powers.
Unknown to most, there was also a deep seated Japanese hate directed at the Chinese after their defeat in the Sino-Japanese war. Many did not expect the genocide against the Chinese that ensued after the British surrender of Singapore. Many Chinese familes left their newborn infants to the care of Malay and Indian couples in their last attempt to survive the ruthless massacre of every Chinese on sight. Many of the children that were left to the care of these foster parents have survived until today. Among them was my late mother.ceh in northern Sumatra, which formed a backdrop to the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. After the British surrender of Singapore in 1942, F-Kikan was dissolved, and replaced by a new liaison agency, the Iwakuro Kikan, or "I-Kikan"
We had a Japanese lady photographer in Kuala Pilah. She disappeared when the japanese army arrived
