Draft:Nantina Home

The Nantina Home was a building on Queen Street in Singapore. Prior to the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, the building operated as the Toyo Hotel. It became the Nantina Hotel after the war and was converted into the Nantina Home, a welfare home, soon after. It was renamed the Union House when it became the temporary headquarters of the Singapore Trades Union Congress in 1959.

History

The Japanese-owned Toyo Hotel was established on Queen Street before the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. According to writer Justin J. Corfield, Lieutenant-Colonel Yokata moved into the building on 17 February 1942, with military executive Mamoru Shinozaki joining him there, and that the building served as the initial headquarters of the Japanese kempeitai. In his biography, local academic and diplomat Maurice Baker wrote in his autobiography that during the occupation, the building was used as a "centre for Japanese officers", and that an armed sentry was stationed in front of the building. Rudy Mosbergen. Reopened as "pleasure for Japanese visitors." "mainly for the use of civilian personnel" Shinozaki claimed to have first proposed the establishment of the Oversea Chinese Association to leader of the local Chinese community Lim Boon Keng during a meeting at the hotel.