Talk:Japanese occupation of British Borneo

Single rule for all of Borneo Island - incorrect?

There is a statement in the article that

For the first time in the modern history, both territories, that have long been separated under Western colonial rules, were unified under a Japanese colonial rule with all its inhabitants becoming subjects of the Japanese emperor.

From my reading of the history of the Japanese occupation the north was under Japanese Army control and the south the Japanese Navy. Therefore despite both being under the Japanese people, they were they were managed as two different regions with different Government and laws. There is also no historic basis on which to state the island of Borneo was unified prior to colonization. There were different tribes occupying different areas. It was not a unified country at any stage. NealeFamily (talk) 09:30, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

References

Y Replied on my talkpage. Night Lantern (talk) 10:46, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Copy edit

I have started a copy edit for GOCE, so thar this rather good looking article can lose the tag. If you have any queries about my edits feel free to post them here. Queries:

• "Japanese women as masseuses in the red-light district". As a general rule it is safe to assume that women in a red light district giving their job description as masseuses are prostitutes. Am I safe to make that assumption here? Gog the Mild (talk) 22:26, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

It would probably be more accurate to describe them as Comfort women NealeFamily (talk) 02:24, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. But I would want a very solid source before I suggested that a pre-war British colonial administration colluded with the Japanese in the sexual enslavement of Japanese citizens. I will fudge it. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

• Is there a sentence missing? Immediately before "Many of the Japanese who had trained for the administrative positions in Borneo had died during the attack although the submarine were also managed to be sunken." This implies that a Japanese transport was sunk, otherwise it does not make sense. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:33, 9 May 2018 (UTC)