Liu Nianzhen, a survivor of the Japanese army s comfort women system, died at the age of 107

Mondo International Updated on 2024-02-28

At about 12 o'clock on February 27, 2024, Liu Nianzhen, a survivor of the "** system" of the Japanese army during World War II, died in Yueyang County, Hunan Province, at the age of 107.

Image source |China's "** Research Center".

Liu Nianzhen was born in Yueyang County, Hunan Province in 1918, and was taken away by the Japanese army in 1944 in Zhangguying Town and locked up in a dilapidated house on the mountain. During his imprisonment, the old man was subjected to sexual slavery by the Japanese army. The detention place was guarded by Japanese soldiers, and Grandma Liu kept trying to escape. One night, probably seven or eight days after being imprisoned, she finally escaped snuck out. Due to severe inflammation, my grandmother was unable to have children and was cared for by her nephew's family in her later years.

On April 28, 2019, the Hunan investigation team of China's "** Problem Research Center" went to Yueyang County, Hunan Province to investigate, visited Liu Nianzhen, and confirmed the identity of the survivor of the Japanese army's "** system" through oral interviews and field research.

Image source |China's "** Research Center".

On April 28, 2019, the Hunan investigation team of the research center went to Yueyang County, Hunan Province for investigation and visited Liu Nianzhen.

Liu Nianzhen was the oldest victim survivor in mainland China, and although she is old, her physical and mental state are quite good. Whenever volunteers visited, the elderly were very happy. In the fall of 2019, volunteers from the research center went to Yueyang to visit Grandma Liu, and she held the volunteers' hands and chatted. When the volunteers didn't understand something, she gestured with her hand, and whenever she guessed what she meant, her grandmother would smile and nod her head and give her a thumbs up. In 2020, the New Year condolence team went to grandma's house, and grandma also warmly received everyone, and she has been holding the hand of the only girl in the team. Our footage left a lot of happy and playful moments of the old man.

Image source |China's "** Research Center".

Professor Chen Lifei sent exquisite pastries and red scarves to Grandma Liu.

Image source |China's "** Research Center".

The 2024 New Year Condolences Volunteer Team took a photo for the elderly.

On February 27, 2024, volunteers received a notification from the family of the elderly that Liu Nianzhen had left us forever due to old age and infirmity.

At present, there are only 8 survivors of the "** system" of the Japanese army registered in Chinese mainland (on February 22, 2024, the research center newly identified a survivor of the "** system" of the former Japanese army in Pingjiang County, Hunan). The China "** Issues Research Center of Shanghai Normal University would like to express its deep condolences to the death of Grandma Liu Nianzhen! May the old man rest in peace!

[**Shangshi University*** Problem Research Center].

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