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The surrender of Hong Kong was signed on the 26th at The Peninsula Hotel. [15] On 20 February 1942 General Rensuke Isogai became the first Imperial Japanese governor of Hong Kong. [16] This ushered in almost four years of Imperial Japanese administration, which they used the city as a naval and logistics base for their campaign in the western ...
Several hours before the British surrendered on Christmas at the end of the Battle of Hong Kong, Japanese soldiers entered St. Stephen's College, which was being used as a hospital on the front line at the time. [1] [2] The Japanese were met by two doctors, Black and Witney, who were marched away, and were later found dead and mutilated.
The Hong Kong Defence Force was established during the same month, and was the main Japanese military unit in Hong Kong throughout the occupation. [127] During the over three and a half years of occupation by the Japanese, an estimated 10,000 Hong Kong civilians were executed, while many others were tortured, raped, or mutilated. [108]
Nanshitou camp. The refugee camp at Nanshitou was a prison in the south suburb of Guangzhou, which had a dock upon the Pearl River. [8]: 73–74 It was turned into a refugee camp, with the surge of refugees arriving from Hong Kong until the Japanese surrender in 1945.
Japanese troops march on Queen's Road, Hong Kong in December 1941, after the British surrender. In 1939, the British government had drawn up evacuation plans for the British and other European residents of Hong Kong, which was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom (UK) at the time.
It was involved in the Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou (part of Operation Ichi-Go) from August to November 1944 and surrendered to the Chinese Kuomintang forces on August 15, 1945 with the surrender of Japan. Concurrently, from February 1945 to the end of the war, Tanaka was Governor-General of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation.
British Rear Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt watching Japanese Vice Admiral Ruitako Fujita sign the document of surrender on 16 September 1945, in Hong Kong The surrender ceremony of the Japanese to the Australian forces at Keningau , British North Borneo , on 17 September 1945
Nine hours after Emperor Hirohito announced the unconditional surrender of Japan, on 15 August 1945, Hockley was secretly executed by soldiers from the Imperial Japanese Army. The two officers who instigated the killing were convicted of war crimes and hanged in Hong Kong in 1947.