Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
3.3 year occupation of Hong Kong during World War II by the Japanese Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港日治時期) was a time when Japan controlled Hong Kong. It began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, gave up the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.[1] The occupation lasted for three years and eight months until Japan gave up at the end of Second World War.