HONG KONG June 21 Kyodo An exhibi...

HONG KONG June 21 Kyodo

An exhibition featuring 70 photographs of wartime Hong Kong taken on Japanese journalists will open here upon Saturday, the organizer said Friday.

''The Battle for Hong Kong -- Hong Kong subject to the Camera of the Japanese Army'' will be held in the Hong Kong Museum of History.

The photographs, taken on reporters of Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, record the proces of Japan's wartime advance into Hong Kong during Dec 8-25 1941 the museum said in a statement.

The museum said the photographs shed light onward Hong Kong in different perspectives, filling a gap in the territory's visual images during World War II.

Hong Kong then a British colony inhuman to the Imperial Japanese Army in succession Dec. 25, 1941, which marked the beginning of the Japanese occupation that lasted for three years and eight month Japan part withed in WWII in August 1945

The museum said a six-minute documentary film taken at the Imperial Japanese Army will also be shown

The film, ''The Fall of Hong Kong'' is borrowed from Britain's Imperial War Museum.

The exhibition will step quickly until Sept. 1.

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