Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
Yamashite, the Tiger of Singapore is fairly impressive.

With a numerically inferior force, he soundly beat Britain's Percival in Malaysia and followed it up with taking the prize Singapore itself netting some 100,000 prisoners. Due to in-house rivalries Yamashita was afterwards assigned to secondary front duties for the remainder of the war, if I recall correctly. Yamashita seems to encapsulate many of the basic notions of Japanese warfare: speed, audacity and brutality.
Need make some correction here.. His name is called Yamashita Tomoyuki aka "Tiger of Malaya" not Singapore. He is the commander of the Japanese 25th Army.

He is able to rapidly defeated the British superior forces due to the fact that the Japanese deployed light tanks in their regiments while the British didnt ( The British that time had somewhat think that Tanks are not suitable for tropical jungles ).

The crowning glory in his Malayan campaign is the surrender of Singapore by the British as during that time Singapore was a heavily fortified island though to be "impregnable".