On December 12, Fang Qiaomei, a survivor of the Japanese "comfort women" system, died in Pingjiang, Hunan Province at the age of 101.

Fang Qiaomei was born in April 1921. One day in 1939, when she was 18 years old and had just given birth to her son, the Japanese troop, led by Chinese spies, went from Xiushui, Jiangxi to Quanshui Village, Longmen Town, Pingjiang County. It was lunch time. Fang Qiaomei's family had just cooked a pot of rice whenthe Japanese called on her to go to a "meeting" with them. Her father-in-law refused to let her go because his grandson was still in infancy. A Japanese soldier brutally stabbed Fang Qiaomei's brother-in-law to death with a bayonet. The Japanese soldiers killed the pig in her house, ate food and robbed some other materials, and then captured Fang Qiaomei. Before leaving, the Japanese soldiers set fire to a house in her neighborhood. Eight days later, Fang Qiaomei returned home. Her newborn son died of starvation because he had no milk. Since then, Fang Qiaomei had lost her fertility. Later, she adopted a son and lived with him. When Fang Qiaomei was old, her daily life was carefully taken care of by her son and his wife.

In May this year, the staff of the Memorial Hallvisited Fang in Pingjiang, Hunan Province. On December 12, the Memorial Hall received a message from Fang's family that the old lady died peacefully at home that morning.