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Hong Kong: 100 100 people killed by Japanese military. Zhejiang-Jiangxi massacres: 1942, 15 May – 4 September Provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi: 250,000 Conducted by Japanese military as retaliation for Chinese civilians giving shelter to American pilots after the Doolittle Raid. Changjiao massacre: 1943, 9–12 May Changjiao, Hunan: 30,000
More than 300 people died of torture and starvation. During the Japanese occupation, a total of 20,000 Hong Kong people and 20,000 mainlanders were abducted to mine in Hainan Island, where they were abused and many died of starvation.Of the 40,000 Chinese workers on Hainan Island, only 5,000 survived.
After 1997, Hong Kong experienced problems integrating with the Chinese mainland in terms of economic, cultural, and political issues. [2] On the economic side, the Hong Kong government pushed for several controversial policies, such as Individual Visit Scheme, an economic integration plan with the Pearl River Delta, and the construction of high-speed rail. [3]
The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor , forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong around the same time that Japan ...
The Second Opium War (simplified Chinese: 第二次鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 第二次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, (simplified Chinese: 英法联军之役; traditional Chinese: 英法聯軍之役) [4] [full citation needed] was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which ...
Kowloon Walled City ( Chinese: 九龍寨城) was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave of China within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898.
Stanley Internment Camp (Chinese: 赤柱拘留營) was a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong during the Second World War.Located in Stanley, on the southern end of Hong Kong Island, it was used by the Japanese imperial forces to hold non-Chinese enemy nationals after their victory in the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941.
St. Stephen's College massacre. Categories: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Japanese war crimes by country. Japanese war crimes in China. Human rights abuses in Hong Kong.