Neglected Japanese wartime military ‘pillboxes’ offer a window to Hong Kong’s World War II past
2021|03:10On a knoll in Luk Keng in the northeastern part of Hong Kong’s New Territories, lies a large-scale military complex including 14 pillboxes built by Japanese imperial forces in World War II. The concrete emplacements, with small openings from which guns can be fired and a system of defensive trenches, were built during the late stage of Japanese occupation of the city between 1943 to 1945. In December 2009, the Luk Keng pillboxes and observation posts were listed as grade two historical…