Surrendered Japanese troops are put to work unloading ships at Kowloon docks near Hong Kong.

Seated Japanese troops; a commando with a Thompson submachine gun keeps watch in the left foreground. Medium close-up of the commando with stern expression. Two British soldiers with a Japanese soldier, apparently in jovial conversation. Japanese moving a wooden crate. Guard with Thompson standing over seated Japanese on the dockside. Seated Japanese partly obscured by a Thompson. Japanese pushing a small cart on rails.

Notes

When hostilities ceased there were 20,000 'Japanese surrendered personnel' in Hong Kong. Limited availability of shipping and the need to retain some of these men as labour meant that Japanese forces in south east Asia were not entirely repatriated until late 1947.