Why did the japanese surrender in southeast asia during world war two?
Singapore was selected for several political reasons, chief of which was to reassert a British claim to its pre-war territories, and to do so with a member of the Royal family presiding. The least known theater of action in the Pacific War was CBI, China-Burma-India. Implicit in the name is an order of importance the countries had for the US, which did the greatest amount of all Allied combat. The US interest was to keep China in the war, because the Japanese had to keep about one-half of their army there as a garrison force. To do that after Japan had occupied SE Asia required the logistics pipeline fo the Ledo Road, and the aerial route over the Himalayas, the “Hump.” Northern Burma was a transit point for the road. Beyond that, the US would provide NO support to UK forces for any advance against Japanese forces in Burma, Malaysia, or Singapore. There was great friction, even hostilities between the Allied commands in the theater because the US opposed the restoration of UK colonial
