Bayan da Japan ta mika wuya ga Allies a ranar 15 ga watan Agusta, 1945, Singapore ya fada cikin wani ɗan gajeren lokaci na tashin hankali da rikice-rikice; fashi da kuma ramuwa-kashewa sun yadu. Sojojin Birtaniya da Lord Louis Mountbatten ya jagoranci, Babban Kwamandan Sojojin Soja na Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, ya koma Singapore don karɓar mika wuya ga sojojin Japan a yankin daga Janar Itagaki Seishiro a madadin Janar Hisaichi Terauchi a ranar 12 ga Satumba, 1945, kuma an kafa Hukumar Sojojin Birtaniya don gudanar da tsibirin har zuwa Maris 1946. An lalata yawancin kayayyakin more rayuwa a lokacin yakin, ciki har da wutar lantarki da samar da ruwa, da sabis na tarho, da kuma kayan aikin tashar jiragen ruwa a tashar jiragen ruwa na Singapore.
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