Japanese Occupation Timeline By Justin9127 Sep 1, 1941 Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements Nov 16, 1941 Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert Dec 8, 1941 36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun ShanRiver Dec 11, 1941 Evacuation of New Territories Dec 12, 1941 Evacuation of Kowloon Dec 13, 1941 Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored) Dec 17, 1941 Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses Dec 18, 1941 Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island Dec 19, 1941 Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties Dec 20, 1941 HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured Dec 23, 1941 Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley Dec 25, 1941 Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort Dec 25, 1941 Japanese attack St. Stephens’s College Dec 25, 1941 Mt Cameron captured and Maltby calls for Governor Young to surrender Jan 1, 1942 Hong Kong Dollar was outlawed and replaced by the Japanese Military Yen. The exchange rate wasfixed at 2 Hong Kong dollars to one military yen. Jan 1, 1942 Police recruited to be Kempeitai Jan 21, 1942 Internment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians Feb 15, 1942 The HK-Kowloon brigade (港九大隊) was established from the Guangdong People's anti-JapaneseGuerilla force led by Cai Guo-liang (蔡國梁) Apr 15, 1942 Food rationing begins Apr 15, 1942 Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese Jul 1, 1942 The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride Dec 1, 1942 Over the month 10,000 women are raped Jun 1, 1943 Public utilities handed over to Japanese control Jun 1, 1943 Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland Aug 6, 1945 The US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously Aug 9, 1945 Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki Aug 15, 1945 Japan finally surrenders Aug 30, 1945 Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on Aug 30, 1945 The "30 August" was declared as the "Liberation Day" (Chinese: 重光紀念日), and had been a publicholiday in Hong Kong until 1967 Sep 1, 1945 Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor. Sep 16, 1945 British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governor Sep 30, 1946 General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.