Nazi Germany's dictator Adolf Hitler and a woman crying over a dead child after a Japanese air raid at Jinrikisha Station in Tanjong Pagar on 3 February 1942. (PHOTOS: Getty Images) SINGAPORE — On 26 March 1941, Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka arrived in Berlin for a visit to meet Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler and his German counterpart Joachim von Ribbentrop with the aim of deepening relations between their two countries. One city emerged as a key subject of their talks amid the ongoing World War II (WWII): Singapore. At the time of Matsuoka’s four-day visit to the German...