Between 1941 and 1945, British Hong Kong (then a colony) was occupied by the Japanese, see this Wikipedia article.
However on British Hong Kong's Wikidata page, there's no mention of the Japaneses occupation whatsoever. It seems like it was a British colony or dependent territory from 1841 to 1997.
I'm willing to contribute to Wikidata to fix this, but what's the best way to model this short-term occupation?
As far as I know, there are no methodological guidelines for how to model those things on Wikidata.
Rerardless Wikidata, modelling of such geopolitical endurants/perdurants/aggregates might be fairly complex.
Option 1
Create a separate "Japanese-occupied Hong Kong" entry (similar to Vichy France).
Split British Hong Kong into "British-occupied Hong Kong" and "British-reoccupied Hong Kong"
(similar to French Third Republic and French Fourth Republic).
Thereafter, one should split into two parts all 26 Wikipedia articles...
Option 2
Option 3
Your question is widely applicable.
Perhaps you could propose the "occupied by" property.
