RETURN TO EUROPE 1961

HONG KONG

With Dutch freighter 'Giessenkerk' from Kobe to Hong Kong

Dutch Freighter 'Overijsel' arrives in Hong Kong 1960

Ginger potting in Hong Kong 1961

Hong Kong New Territories: walled city

Hong Kong children

Hong Kong refugees

Fishermen's wedding

Life on a fishing junk

Macau, still a Portugese colony in 1961

Philippines

Cigar factory in Manila, Philippines

Coconut harvesting, Philippines

Port Swettenham (now Klang)

Singapore Raffles hotel 1961

Singapore backstreet

Singapore street life

Singapore street of the dead

Dutch freighter 'Oldekerk' loading in Singapore

Kuala Lumpur station 1961

Rural village Malaysia

Rubber plantation in Malaysia

Dutch freighter 'Oldekerk' crosses Indian Ocean 1961

Through the Suez canal

My photo's and those of my former colleague Hans Brinckmann were being shown in the Fujifilm Square Gallery "Photo IS": 'Showa Japan seen through Dutch Eyes' from August 29th to September 30, 2008 at the Fujifilm's Headquarters in Tokyo. 49.000 Visitors were recorded.

Of my films taken in Hong Kong/Japan a few DVD's are available ! Click here for a list.

On the web since 13 July 2008. Updated 17 October 2009

© Michael Rogge 2009

Previously Japan 1959 - 60

The above photos also appear in my autobiography in Dutch:

• Kobe, Japan 1958 - 59
• Tokyo, Japan 1959
• Farewell Japan 1960
• My video clips 1949 - 2008 on YouTube

Literature:

• Brinckmann, Hans: The Magatama Doodle. Autobiography of his years in Japan 1950-2004
• Brinckmann, J.H. with photo's of IJsbrand Rogge: Showa Japan (2008), The Post-War Golden Age And Its Troubled Legacy