Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Jafananci sun sake suna Singapore, daga Jafananci, ko "tsibirin kudancin da aka samu a zamanin Shōwa", kuma sun mamaye shi har sai da Birtaniyya ta sake mallakar tsibirin a ranar 12 ga Satumba, 1945, wata daya bayan
Jafananci sun mika wuya. Sunan "Shōnantō" ya kasance, a lokacin, romanised a matsayin "Syonan-to" ko "Syonan", inda haruffan 昭南 a zahiri suna fassara zuwa "Hasken Kudu".