Hong Kong was conquered by the Japanese on December 18, 1941. For the next "three years and eight months", Hong Kong was under Japanese governance, until Japan lost the WWII.
Local HongKongers who witnessed the Japanese' cruelty and managed to survive are already 60-70 year old. After all these years, these HKers are still living in the horrible memory.
Recently, many of these old HKers are exposing their stories, with the help of TVB. Some of them are transcribing the bloodcurdling stories and making them kwown to the world.
Babies beheaded, fresh sliced and eaten, and ... horrible stories that I would never able to make myself to believe were ALL here crafted by the Japanese swords.
It's sad to mention, but these are the sad facts of Hong Kong. My wish?
I hope we, as a younger generation, Chinese and Japanese alike, could learn the lesson and not to repeat those "unreal" stories once again.
Update: August 18, 2005
TVB recently broadcasts a series of documentaries, "60 Years After The War".
I did not dare to look at those horrible scenes as I knew they were awful. 15 years ago, I watched a documentary, named "Black Sun 731" which illustrated how the Japanese tested their bio-weapons onto the Chinese. I nearly vomited at the TV screen.
I always thought fist-fighting with my brothers was "bloody", until I saw that movie.
Today, SCMP reports "Koizumi's contrition fails to impress Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday issued a "heartfelt apology" for Tokyo's wartime acts in Asia on the 60th anniversary of the country's surrender, as thousands thronged to a war shrine that critics say glorifies Japanese aggression..." What do I think? Well, after every brother-hood fight, I would promise my mom that there would be "no next time".
I hope there would be no more war between the 2 big Asian brothers: China and Japan too!
