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Submitted by Hugh Farmer on Wed, 2014-01-29 17:02

The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group's website:

http://industrialhistoryhk.org/ has an article on HK Industry during World War Two.

Included is a brief mention under Fishing of the Amakusa Marine Products Industrial Company. This was apparently active in HK during the Japanese occupation around Dec 1942 onwards.

I can find no information about this company. Or of its role in HK during WW2.

Can anyone provide further details?

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Submitted by David on Thu, 2014-01-30 15:28.

Hi Hugh,

The first two results from this search aren't fully viewable online, but they give a different version of the name:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Amakusa+Marine+Products+Industrial+Compa...

That leads to:

http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B38629537.pdf

which has a couple of notes about HK fishermen in WW2 on pages 4 & 5.

Hopefully they'll give you some new leads,

Regards, David

PS A link to the page on your website will be easier for readers to follow than a link to the site itself, eg

http://industrialhistoryhk.org/industry-world-war/

easier than

http://industrialhistoryhk.org/

Submitted by Hugh Farmer on Wed, 2014-05-21 20:25.

Hello David

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Thanks, your sources are very useful. I have put these into an article The Hong Kong Fishing Industry during World War Two with the link below.

http://industrialhistoryhk.org/hong-kong-fishing-industry-world-war/

We haven't completely cleared up the confusion about variant names but are getting closer.

Hugh