That New York Times Article on Anti-Japan Protests in Hong Kong

In a post yesterday, I linked to this article in the New York Times.

At the time, the article said:

Hong Kong schools teach almost nothing about the occupation, a legacy of the British, who were close allies of Japan.

Unable to recall any British alliance with the Japanese during World War II, I said:

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I guess someone at the Times noticed the error, because today, the sentence in question has been edited to read:

Hong Kong schools teach almost nothing about the occupation.

As far as I can tell, the edit was made without any notice to readers of a correction. A little sloppy for America's "Newspaper of Record," don't you think?