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Winston Churchill remarks that Hong Kong is not defensible from the Japanese. He decides to send a token force to bolster the garrison of Hong Kong.
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The Canadian garrison arrives to defend Hong Kong alongside British, Indians, and local volunteers.
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The attack and invasion begins. The Japanese bomb the RAF at Kai Tak airport and they cross the Sham Chun Shan river.
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The area of the New Territories is evacuated due to the onslaught of the Japanese attack. Residents flee to Kowloon or Hong Kong.
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Kowloon evacuated. The japanese overrun the city of kowloon. Refugees swarm into Hong Kong.
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Hong kong island attacked on the north shore.
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Governor Mark Young surrenders to the Japanese forces.
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This month, 10,000 women would be raped by the japanese, the currency of Hong Kong changes from the Hong Kong dollar. The exchange rate is fixed at 2 HKD to 1 military yen. White citizens are imprisoned and mainland refugees are repatriated back to the mainland, and the police are turned into the Kempeitai, japanese secret police.
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Japanese rename streets and buildings in Central get renamed into japanese. In the next month, the British Army Aid Group (BAAG) is formed to help prisoners and important people escape Hong Kong.
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Food rationing among civilians begins. Public utilities are also handed over to japanese control.
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British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourts formally accepts the Japanese surrender, and Hong Kong's pre-war governor, Mark Young is reinstated as the Governor of Hong Kong.
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After the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 respectively, Japan surrenders to allied forces.
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The territory of Hong Kong is formally handed back to the Royal Navy, and the occupation subsequently ends. This day would be a public holiday until 1967.
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General Takashi Sakai, the leader of the japanese forces during the occupation and invasion, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of that day.
