Japanese Occupation Timeline

By Justin9127

  • Winston Churchill realizes that Hong Kong is in danger and decides to send reinforcements

  • Canadian troops arrive on the HMCS Prince Robert

  • 36 Japanese fighters attack Kai Tak airfield and units of the Japanese 23rd cross the Sham Chun ShanRiver

  • Evacuation of New Territories

  • Evacuation of Kowloon

  • Japanese demand surrender (surrender is ignored)

  • Japanese begin a heavy bombing and artillery barrage of the island's northern coastal defenses

  • Japanese main attack Hong Kong Island

  • Grenadiers Retake Mount Butler with heavy casualties

  • HK Commanding officer Lawson killed as Fortress Hong Kong captured

  • Royal rifles Retreat to Stanley

  • Japanese attack Royal rifles and capture Stanley fort

  • Japanese attack St. Stephens’s College

  • Mt Cameron captured and Maltby calls for Governor Young to surrender

  • 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.

  • Police recruited to be Kempeitai

  • Internment of most 'white' (western) Allied civilians

  • 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)

  • Food rationing begins

  • Streets and buildings in Central were renamed in Japanese

  • The British Army Aid Group was formed by Colonel Lindsay Ride

  • Over the month 10,000 women are raped

  • Public utilities handed over to Japanese control

  • Repatriation of Chinese back to the mainland

  • The US dropped an atomic bomb called the “Enola Gay” on Hiroshima, killing over 70,000 instantaneously

  • Another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki

  • Japan finally surrenders

  • Hong Kong was handed over by Imperial Japanese Army to the Royal Navy on

  • 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

  • Franklin Gimson, Hong Kong's colonial secretary, declares himself interim governor.

  • British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt formally accepts the Japanese surrender; Mark Young resumes as Governor

  • General Takashi Sakai, is tried as a war criminal and executed on the afternoon of.