Terms of Use, Privacy Statement & Disclaimers

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Terms of Use & Code of Conduct

Acceptance of terms

By accessing, browsing, reading, or citing FujiGo — Bahau Heritage Archive (the Archive, we, us, or our), you agree to abide by and be bound by these Legal Terms, Privacy Statement, and associated Archival Disclaimers. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of this website.

Non-profit, educational and historical purpose

The Archive is an independent, non-commercial, public-interest historical preservation project. Its mission is to document, research, synthesize, and commemorate the World War II agricultural settlement of Fuji-Go (Bahau / Mahsan, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia), alongside the wartime experiences of Eurasian, Catholic, Chinese, and related Malayan and Singaporean communities during the Japanese Occupation (1941–1945).

Permitted use

• You are encouraged to view, read, quote, and link to Archive materials for non-commercial educational purposes, historical study, personal family ancestry research, school curricula, and scholarly works.
• Quotations or references to original authored research from this site must include clear academic citation and attribution to fujigo.site and the original named authors or compilers.
• No original text, synthesized oral histories, digital layout elements, or compiled databases may be sold, licensed, paywalled, or commercially exploited without prior explicit written permission.

Prohibited conduct

• Do not deploy automated scrapers, data-mining bots, or extraction scripts in a manner that degrades or threatens website infrastructure stability.
• Do not manipulate, distort, decontextualize, or alter historical quotations, witness accounts, or archival evidence to misrepresent historical facts.

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Intellectual Property, Ownership & Non-Claim of Archival Rights

Original written content and site compilation

The original historical essays, organizational frameworks, translations, editorial syntheses, and website codebase are the copyrighted property of the FujiGo Archive and its researchers, protected under Malaysian and international copyright conventions.

Non-ownership of archival photographs and historical assets

• The Archive explicitly disclaims any ownership, commercial entitlement, or proprietary copyright over historical photographs, period government records, declassified military documents, ecclesiastical records, maps, and vintage press clippings displayed on this website.
• All copyrights, moral rights, and proprietary interests in historical images, archival documents, and quoted records remain strictly with their respective original copyright holders, national and international archives, religious repositories, institutional libraries, original photographers, or familial descendants or estates, as applicable.
• These materials are curated and presented in good faith under Fair Dealing, including Section 13(2)(a) of the Malaysian Copyright Act 1987 and comparable international fair use doctrines, strictly for non-profit research, scholarly criticism, historical review, educational dissemination, and preservation of public memory.
• Visitors wishing to reproduce primary archival photographs or records outside standard fair dealing exceptions are solely responsible for obtaining direct authorization from the respective rights-holding institution or estate.

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Illustrative Reconstructions & Visual Representations

To assist researchers and the public in visualizing physical landscapes and wartime scenes where no contemporary photographs survive, such as undocumented cemetery grounds, early village signboards, excavated brick foundations, or unrecorded events, certain images are illustrative reconstructions, digital visualizations, or AI-assisted historical interpretations.

• Every illustrative reconstruction is explicitly labeled in its accompanying caption, for example, “Illustrative reconstruction of...”, so visitors can clearly distinguish synthetic visualizations from authentic period photographs.
• Reconstructions are solely visual aids that complement documented oral and archival evidence; they are not verifiable primary-source artifacts.

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Archival & Historical Research Disclaimers

Non-definitive nature of wartime records

Information on this website is assembled through a cross-disciplinary examination of wartime military logs, church archives, press reports, declassified intelligence, and firsthand oral testimonies recorded across multiple decades. Because Japanese Occupation records (1941–1945) were frequently destroyed, lost, or written under wartime censorship, specific dates, death tolls, casualty figures, and geographic boundaries remain subjects of ongoing scholarly discourse and differing historical interpretations. The Archive is an evolving historical resource provided on an as-is and as-available basis for academic inquiry and remembrance, without a guarantee of exhaustive factual completeness.

External references and scholarly links

Links to third-party archival portals, scholarly articles, or external databases are provided only for research convenience. The Archive exercises no control over and assumes no responsibility for external content, availability, or accuracy.

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Sensitive Historical Subject Matter Advisory

The Archive documents historical wartime atrocities, military occupation policies including the Sook Ching mass screenings, forced civilian relocations, fatal epidemics including malaria, dysentery, and beriberi, malnutrition, and loss of life. All materials are presented objectively and somberly for educational, historical, and commemorative purposes. Reader discretion is advised when viewing sensitive historical topics.

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Privacy Statement & Data Ethics

Data minimization

The Archive operates strictly on a philosophy of privacy preservation and zero commercial tracking.

• We do not require account registration, passwords, or personal-profile creation.
• We do not partner with advertising brokers, commercial analytics profiling systems, or behavioral tracking networks.

Technical logs and local preferences

• Our web servers may record basic, non-personally identifiable technical logs, such as IP address, browser type, and timestamps, solely for operational security, DDoS prevention, and server-performance diagnostics.
• User settings, such as text-size adjustments or dark/light display preferences, are stored strictly in your local browser storage (localStorage) and are never sent to external servers or third parties.

Research submissions and oral-history confidentiality

If you contact the Archive at contact@fujigo.site to contribute personal recollections, family memoirs, or historical artifacts, your contact information and personal details will be kept confidential. No oral-history testimony, private manuscript, or identifying biographical detail of living individuals will be published without express written permission.

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Notice, Archival Takedowns & Historical Corrections Policy

The Archive is deeply committed to ethical stewardship, historical truth, and the protection of intellectual and moral rights.

Historical corrections and additions

Academic researchers, local historians, and descendants with verifiable documentation, archival records, or oral testimonies that clarify, correct, or supplement an account on this website are welcome to submit them for review.

Notice and takedown procedure

Copyright holders, archive custodians, photographers, and familial descendants or estate representatives with concerns about an archival image or document used without appropriate credit or preferred attribution format, or seeking withdrawal or redaction of specific material, should contact us directly at contact@fujigo.site with:

1. The exact URL or section of the material in question.
2. A description of the claim or connection to the material, such as copyright ownership, estate representative, or family descendant.
3. The specific requested action, such as an amended attribution line, inclusion of an archival reference code, or complete removal.

Upon receipt, our team will review the inquiry promptly and implement necessary adjustments, enhanced citations, or immediate retractions in good faith.

Archival contact channel

All inquiries, copyright correspondence, historical submissions, and academic collaboration requests should be directed to FujiGo — Bahau Heritage Archive at contact@fujigo.site or https://fujigo.site.