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Kiyoshi Watanabe
For more about Kiyoshi Watanabe and what he did in HK, read 'Small Man of Nanataki' by Liam Nolan. Helena May have a copy of this book published in 1966. It is most moving.
The Reverend Kiyoshi Watanabe
"Footprints", the memoirs of Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, is dedicated to The Reverend Kiyoshi Watanabe. The dedication page has a post war photograph of Watanabe.
The dedication reads:
'This book is dedicated to The Reverend Kiyoshi Watanabe, formerly Officer Interpreter, Imperial Japanese Army, who helped to save lives of many British prisoners of war and British and Allied civilian men, women and children interned in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, 1941-1945, at the risk of losing his own. His wife and daughter were killed during the Allied bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945'
The Helena May has a copy of this book.
Ian
“Uncle John”
There is a Podcast on Kiyoshi Watanabe, accessible on YouTube, under the heading "Forgotten, episode 12."
More info
There is a blog entry about him. His DoB is mentioned here.
https://hosannaefcluxmundi.blogspot.com/2016/08/on-day-august-6-1945.html