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5 unusual facts about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong


Daoud Bokhary

He served in the British Indian Army for four years as a logistics expert, and came to Hong Kong with the army on the first British ship after the surrender of Japan ended the occupation of Hong Kong.

Hu Zaobin

When the Japanese troops occupied Hong Kong in 1942.

Joan Lorring

Lorring fled with her mother in 1939 following the Japanese invasion.

KMB Route 1

After the Japanese occupation this route was only bus route remaining in service in Kowloon at the end of the occupation.

Steven N. S. Cheung

Born in Hong Kong in 1935, he fled to China in 1941 due to the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.


Guangzhouwan

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kwangchowan was often used as a stopover on an escape route for civilians fleeing Hong Kong and trying to make their way to Free China; Patrick Yu, a prominent trial lawyer, recalled in his memoirs how a Japanese civilian in Hong Kong helped him to escape in this way.

Old South Kowloon District Court

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the building served as the Kowloon headquarters of the Kempeitai.

St. Stephen's college incident

Stephen's college massacre (聖士提反書院大屠殺) involved a series of acts of extreme cruelty committed by the Imperial Japanese Army on 25 December 1941 during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong at St. Stephen's College.


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