JOHOR BARU: Thanks to her fluency in the Japanese language, Yap Chwee Lan is one of several unsung heroes who saved hundreds of lives during the Japanese Occupation in then Malaya.
Now 93, Yap said she picked up the language from her Japanese employer when she was just 13 years old.
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