Liberation Day (Hong Kong)

Liberation Day
Liberation of Hong Kong in 1945
Official name	重光紀念日
Observed by	Hong Kong
Type	War Memorial
Significance	commemorates liberation from Japanese occupation
Date	Last Monday in August
2015 date	August 31
2016 date	August 29
2017 date	August 28
2018 date	August 27
Frequency	annual
First time	1946
Last time	1996 (officially)
Related to	Victory over Japan Day

Liberation Day
Chinese	重光紀念日
Literal meaning	"Recover Light Memorial Day"
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Cung^4 gwong^1 gei^2 nim^6 Jat^6 Yale Romanization Chùng gwōng géi nim yat

During British rule, Liberation Day celebration took place in Hong Kong on the last Monday in August to commemorate the liberation of Hong Kong from Japanese occupation in 1945.^[1] No official ceremonies have taken place in Hong Kong since 1997. Nevertheless, unofficial delegations do mark events at The Cenotaph, and the flag poles are occasionally dressed.

Memorial Day of the War of Resistance^[2] was created after 1997 but in fact referred to the war events on the Chinese mainland rather than the Battle that took place in Hong Kong and the subsequent Occupation which is part of Imperial Japan's Pacific Campaign. Historians consider the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War as two distinct concepts and they should be treated as separate historic developments.

References

1. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/johnson/johnson-ontario-hongkong.htm
2. King-fai Tam; Timothy Y. Tsu; Sandra Wilson (24 October 2014). Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War. Routledge. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-1-317-65046-1.