The upper class still welcomes the Japanese and regards them as "liberation heroes".

At that time, the upper class was oppressed by the British economically, and there was no spokesperson and status in politics. The slogans shouted by the Japanese were very appetizing to them.

To this end, Malay elites are willing to cooperate with the Japanese. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahadi, who was only a teenager during the Japanese occupation, grew up with anti-western and anti-colonial nationalist values instilled by his father and became a famous advocate of "Asian values".

As for the middle and lower classes, they were numb from the beginning. Anyway, they were all working. The Japanese attacked quickly and were occupied by the Japanese before they could react.

However, people from all walks of life in China generally hated the Japanese and formed a large number of guerrillas to resist Japan. Later, many tyrannical locals joined in.

In the later period, some elites even found that the Japanese and the British had changed their medicines and began to plan cooperation with Britain and the United States against the Japanese.