除夜の鐘・戰時香港
The Bell of New Year's Eve · Wartime Hong Kong

2026, artist’s book, newspaper, artistic research

On the last night of 1941, the sound of Hong Kong came through radios across Japan.

Six days after Japanese forces occupied Hong Kong, NHK broadcast a recording of the cannon fire from the assault to audiences nationwide. It replaced the Joya no Kane: Japan's end-of-year ritual in which temple bells are struck by hand, 108 times, to dispel the one hundred and eight afflictions of Buddhist tradition.

This book begins with the fragility of the historical record: how do you prove something happened 85 years ago? The work traces this forgotten, marginalised fragment of history across scattered archives in Japan and Hong Kong, following a broadcast sound so thinly documented that even NHK could not confirm the incident. That thinness of record finds a local echo in Hong Kong itself, where wartime archives are virtually non-existent within the city's own collections.

The publication also situates this single broadcast within a longer genealogy of acoustic violence, from music torture at Guantánamo to the loudspeakers broadcasting K-pop across the Korean border, tracing how modern recording and amplification technology turned a sound that once merely signalled danger into an instrument that can be copied, aimed, and forced upon a listener with no way to refuse it.

Artist book, Offset printing
343 × 493 mm, 8 pages
Printed in Hong Kong

First Published in July 2026, Hong Kong, 300 copies

1941年12月31日戰爭中的除夕夜，日本全國的收音機裡，出現了香港的聲音。

日本放送協會NHK於日軍佔領香港後第六日的零時，向日本全國廣播了攻陷香港的砲火聲錄音，以此取代「除夜の鐘」。 「除夜の鐘」是日本送走舊年的儀式，以人手逐一敲響的108響梵鐘，象徵驅散佛教所說的108種人間煩惱。

這份出版的起點，是歷史記錄本身的脆弱：一件發生在八十五年前的事，該如何被證明曾經存在？這項研究穿梭於日本與香港各地零散的檔案之間，追蹤一段幾乎沒有留下記錄的廣播聲音。連NHK自己的檔案資料中，都找不到任何實際證據，能證實此事確實發生過。而這種記錄的空缺，在香港同樣可以聽見迴響：香港自身的檔案收藏中，幾乎完全沒有留下戰時的痕跡。

這份藝術家書籍將這段廣播歷史放進一段更長的「聲音暴力」歷史脈絡中來理解，從關塔那摩灣的音樂酷刑，到南北韓邊境用擴音器播放的K-pop，藉此追溯現代錄音與擴音技術，如何把一種原本只是用來示警的聲音，轉變成一種可以被複製、被瞄準、並強加在毫無拒絕餘地的聽者身上的武器。

藝術家書籍，柯式印刷
343 × 493 毫米，8頁

2026年7月初版