Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tīmatanga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i te taiwhanga o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, ka whakaekehia e te ope Japanese a Malaya i te 8 o Tihema 1941. Ko te Whakahaere Hapanihi o Malaya
I roa te pakanga i ngā tau e whā, ā, puta noa i te wā o te noho, i āraia tonutia te ope taua o Hapani e te Malay People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA), he rōpū o ngā toa ātete o te Malay Communist Party.