Thanks; if I get a chance I’ll look into it.
Winston Churchill was disgusted when the war ended; he knew those British lives had been wasted (since they had originally gone to war for Poland). After the war, Britain had to face the inevitable and give up the colonies; they could no longer be held when so many of the colonized peoples had seen how vulnerable Britain was.
The Japanese overrunning most of the British and Dutch colonies pretty much wiped out the idea of the “White Tuan” or supremacy notion that the Europeans had engendered.
Singapore was a horrific wake-up call to the British psyche - and to the indigenous folks who suddenly saw that the white guys weren’t invincible.
WWII in the Pacific was a Race war between the Japanese Empire and the European/American allies. No one likes to think of it that way, but it was.
Look up “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” and the Japanese slogan “Asia For Asians!” Drive out “the White Devils”.