Mithil Aggarwal

Hello from Chiayi, Taiwan!

The Commander's Room of the Japanese Naval HQ in #okinawa which was deep underground. 4000 people are believed to have committed suicide in these tunnels towards the end of WWII,

If you're in #Tokyo, checkout @teamLab_net Planets. It is AMAZING.

Chants grow louder as more students join. Way more journalists than actual students though.

#HongKong Students distributing white paper in protest at HKU. In a speech, one said they might even get charged later by the police but questioned why so few Hong Kongers joined?

Squawk 7600 code -- comms failure.

It's just so pretty. Nothing like the busy HK everyone's used to.

Pipes like these from the mainland supply most of HK's water supply. In Lo Wu, it seems like quite a spot. – at North District, Hong Kong

It seems so close that you forget there's a river in between.

Only a few trees in Hong Kong stopping us from ending up in a quarantine camp in Mainland.

Forgot to add this one, Her Majesty's Subjects were also prohibited from distilling ANY Spirits or even keep anything that could be used for it. And this was the 8th Ordinance by the British.

The torpedo depot caught my eye which would be at today's West kowloon. There's also a torpedo range further north east. Note the telegraph lines too which are marked with solid black lines between Kowloon and HK island. Anyway, came for this map and ended up reading laws. 7/7

And this is the map of the entire HK territory which was ceded to the British, as signed in 1898, for 99 years. Notably the map shows the telegraph lines used to establish quick communication between different strategically important islands. 6/n

Trade of Opium and Marijuana was legal, and licensed. 5/n