Singapore renames `Syonan´ second world war exhibition after public outcry
(WorldNews France)

Singapore has renamed a second world war exhibition after the original title, which used the name given to the city-state by Japan under its brutal occupation, sparked a public outcry. This was never our intention [to cause hurt], and I am sorry for the pain the name has caused Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim The exhibition opened earlier this week under the banner “Syonan Gallery: War and Its Legacies� to mark the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, then a British colony......