Jolihocistix: your reference to a Portuguese lady at Changi reminded me of my late mother-in-law who was of British nationality but of Portuguese ancestry (de Sousa) and whose British Army husband was captured at the fall of Singapore. He survived captivity in Singapore/Malaya but was put on the prison-ship Rakuyo Maru bound for Japan, and which was torpedoed on 12 September 1944 by the USS Sealion. He was one of the thousands of “Hell-ship” casualties.
My late wife was born in October 1941 and evacuated to Australia safely before the fall of Singapore with her mother, so she never knew her father. Mother-in-law did not have a high opinion of the Japanese, and I nearly caused World War 3 once when I said I fancied buying a Mazda sometime in the 70s.