A group of archival photographs documenting survivors of the Japanese navy’s wartime sexual slavery system is donated to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, August 14, 2026. /CMG
A group of historic supplies documenting survivors of the Japanese navy’s wartime sexual slavery system was donated on Friday to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
The donation was made by Li Xiaofang, a former official of the Zhejiang Provincial Press and Publication Administration, and Yan Meihua, senior editor of Xiaogan Daily in central China’s Hubei Province. Both have lengthy been engaged in accumulating historic information, conducting subject investigations and researching the historical past of the Japanese navy’s “comfort women” system.
The donated supplies embody numerous images, video recordings and different documentary information associated to survivors. Li donated 43 reproduced handprints of surviving victims, together with portraits, information on residing circumstances and associated images of 67 survivors. Yan donated 8,701 images and pictures, in addition to 10 video clips, documenting Mao Yinmei, a Korean survivor of the system.
Born Park Cha-sun, often known as Park Ah-hee, Mao was initially from Jeollabuk-do in South Korea. In the Nineteen Forties, she was deceived by the Japanese navy and was pressured into sexual slavery in Wuhan, China’s Hubei Province, the place she suffered sustained brutal abuse and torture. After Japan’s give up, she settled in Xiaogan, Hubei, and lived there till her loss of life in 2017.
According to the memorial corridor, all donated supplies can be cataloged, restored, archived and systematically preserved by its Nanjing Massacre Documentation Research and Exchange Center. They will subsequently be integrated into exhibitions, educational analysis archives and public education schemes. The memorial corridor has continued to gather and protect documentary proof associated to the Japanese navy’s wartime sexual slavery system and different wartime atrocities.
Source: CGTN