Mahathir gave the nation an "economic blueprint, " says Shaharil Talib, a University of Malaya academic.
But Japan didn't follow the expected script and sent an army from neighboring Malaya to attack Singapore.
His novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, is set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Much of this thinking is drawn from the British experience in Malaya, but conditions today are vastly different.
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During the second world war he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaya, as Malaysia was then called.
"When our laws talk about theft, they refer to movable properties, not information, " says law professor Khaw Lake Tee of the University of Malaya.
His debut novel, The Gift of Rain - also about the Japanese occupation of Malaya - was longlisted for the Man Booker in 2007.
The Garden of Evening Mists follows a young law graduate who discovers the only Japanese garden in Malaya and its secretive owner and creator.
An opinion survey conducted by the University of Malaya showed 42% of respondents supporting the National Front, with 37% supporting the opposition and 21% undecided.
The airmen of RAF Liberator KL654 were on a mission to take supplies to what was then called Malaya, from the Cocos Islands, when their plane crashed.
They included those who fought in World War II, along those who served during more recent military campaigns such as Malaya, Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
There were to be many more SAS operations in the war against Hitler and later, the SAS saw action in several counter-insurgency operations, in Oman, Aden, Malaya and Borneo.
Kumar has a bachelor's degree in ecology from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, a master's degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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