Higashikawa's actions were brutal enough for Captain S Hidaka, Penang Chief of Staff for the Imperial Japanese Navy, to raise the matter with Lieutenant-General Ishiguro. Ishiguro had Higashikawa transferred and replaced by Captain Terata. Sergeant Eiko Yoshimura, the head of Kempeitai in Ipoh, was sentenced to death by hanging for the torture and abuse of civilians, including Sybil Kathigasu. Malay author Ahmad Murad Nasaruddin wrote a book, Nyawa di-hujong pědang, about her family's incarceration. Others executed were Colonel Watanabe Tsunahiko, commander of the 11th Regiment by firing squad for his part in the Kuala Pilah massacre; and Captain Iwata Mitsugi, Second Lieutenant Goba Itsuto, and Second Lieutenant Hashimoto Tadashi by hanging at Pudu Jail on 3 January 1948. War graves and memorials Cemeteries for Malayan and Allied military personnel were created at Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore and Taiping War Cemetery in Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill), Taiping, Perak. An expedition was mounted October 1946 by the Number 46 War Graves Unit to recover and rebury all personnel they could locate. The main national war memorial is the National Monument in Kuala Lumpur. This memorial commemorates those who served in both World War Two and the Malayan Emergency that followed the war. Independence movement See also Battle of Malaya Battle of Borneo (1941–42) Borneo campaign (1945) Battle of North Borneo Japanese invasion of Malaya Japanese occupation of Singapore Japanese occupation of British Borneo Sook Ching massacre Weeratunge Edward Perera British Military Administration (Malaya) Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere References British Malaya Military history of Malaya during World War II 1940s in British Malaya Malaya Malaya South-East Asian theatre of World War II South West Pacific theatre of World War II Japan–Malaysia relations Federated Malay States Former colonies in Asia Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak Military history of Malaysia 1941 establishments in British Malaya 1946 disestablishments in British Malaya Military history of the British Empire and Commonwealth in World War II British Malaya in World War II Axis powers