In 2011, Liu Qiang burned the Yasukuni Shrine, which directly caused a sensation in the world. Countless people started a flood of discussion about his actions.
Some people say that his actions are too fierce and should not be imitated, while others say that he avenged his relatives and did things that many people dare not do, and was a hero.
So, why did Liu Qiang make such an amazing move? What happened to him after burning the shrine? How is he doing now?
Liu Qiang 's family background is very unusual. His grandfather is the leader of the 48th Regiment of the New Fourth Army in Anti-Japanese War .
48 Regiment is the title of "Tiger Regiment" and is extremely brave in combat. Second, Liu Biesheng also made many military achievements. Unfortunately, in 1945, in a fight with the Japanese army, he was unfortunately shot and killed in order to cover his comrade's evacuation. He was only 30 years old.
Liu Qiang was only ten years old at that time, and an orphan and widowed mother, which could be said to be very miserable.
In addition to grandfather Liu Biesheng, the person closest to Liu Qiang is his grandmother Li Nanying. Li Nanying is a Korean, and her husband is a middle school teacher. She originally lived a happy life, but the Japanese invasion made South Korea a colony.
In Korean schools, all students were forced to learn Japanese. In order to spread their own culture, Li Nanying's husband secretly taught students to learn Korean in private, and was brutally killed by the Japanese army after being discovered.
Li Nanying was very angry when she learned the news. When the Japanese army saw that she was a woman, they forced her to become a comfort woman.
Her husband's death has made her very sad, and her life after being abducted makes her unable to face it. She thought about committing suicide several times, but she was found and rescued by the Japanese army.
In order to punish her disobedience, Li Nanying suffered inhuman torture, and fortunately she survived.
1945, Japanese Emperor announced to the world through broadcast Japan's unconditional surrender. Li Nanying was discovered and rescued by the People's Liberation Army. Faced with the unbearable past, she decided to stay in China and change her name and live a good life.
Since childhood, Liu Qiang grew up with his grandmother and never heard his grandmother talk about this experience. It was not until his grandmother died that he told him the hidden secret. At that time, Liu Qiang was only thirteen or fourteen years old. He was just ignorant of these things, and he didn't have much feeling about the word "comfort woman".
But as he grew older, especially after studying history, he gradually understood his grandmother's state of mind and why his grandmother was not happy all the time.
He only has hatred for Japan. Liu Qiang taught himself Japanese. At the beginning, he just hoped to understand Japan's history. Sometimes he would also travel to Japan to increase his experience.
He has taught himself the course of international psychotherapist and met several Japanese friends during his studies. These people are very friendly to him.
Liu Qiang feels that now is a peaceful era and the past history cannot be forgotten, but don’t impose hatred on the kind Japanese people. So in his eyes, as long as the Japanese admit history and face mistakes, he is willing to treat them friendly.
However, the facts are often not simple. The next thing happened again changed his mind and also led him to the road of burning the Yasukuni Shrine.
On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake of 8.9 in Japan occurred in Japan, which triggered a tsunami and caused hundreds of thousands of casualties. Liu Qiang, who learned the news, decided to go to Japan to appease the mood of the refugees.
After all, his major is a physiotherapist, and he hopes to do his best to save more people.
With this idea, his wife and parents expressed support. Liu Qiang, who was full of confidence, took a plane to Kayama Prefecture, the worst-hit in Japan. Because his Japanese level was not good, he signed up for a Japanese training class in the local area.
From this first day, Liu Qiang felt uncomfortable. The whole class had students from all over the country, but the teacher only targeted Chinese students. If he was late, he would be scolded, but others turned a blind eye to it. Whenever he talked about history during the lecture, he showed a sense of superiority and distorted the facts.Liu Qiang could not bear these things and told the real history directly in class. The school expelled him for disturbing classroom discipline, and the angry Liu Qiang rushed out.
He had nowhere to go and could only wander the streets. This was the first time he felt that Japan was different from what he imagined. Just as he was thinking about his destiny, he accidentally bumped into a stone tablet. He looked up and saw the content and exploded him. It turned out that Kayama Prefecture was the address of the 61st Japanese invaders, and everyone here was their descendants.
Seeing these words praising the invaders, Liu Qiang kicked the stone tablet a few times, and his heart suddenly felt hatred. Only then did he realize that Japan had never reflected on the mistakes he had made.
After returning to the hotel, Liu Qiang was preparing to pack up and return to China, but the news on TV surprised him. The Japanese side pointed out that the South Korean president was invited to visit Japan and talked about the issue of Korean comfort women at the meeting, asking Japan to face up to its own history and apologize.
. Japan ignored this request at all and even fought back against South Korea. Then, on the day the South Korean president returned to China, the Japanese side took a group of ministers to the Yasukuni Shrine to pay homage. This action completely angered Liu Qiang.
Grandpa's sacrifice and grandmother's tragic experience were all caused by Japan's invasion of China. Now Japan is openly visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, which is absolutely unforgivable. So Liu Qiang changed his plan to return to China and decided to do something big in Japan.
The next day, Liu Qiang bought a molten bottle in the store and put on fireproof clothes. On December 26, he came to the Yasukuni Shrine, which is a "ghost" in Japan. This day was the day when my grandmother passed away, and he started a live broadcast to explain to the audience.
When the live broadcast is closed, no one knows what is going on. Until Japan issued a message that the Yasukuni Shrine was burned and the arsonist was not found.
For a moment, the Japanese people were in a state of stalemate, and the police had no idea how to start. They didn't understand who dared to be so bold that they actually burned the shrine.
In order to avoid Japanese searches and not want to implicate their family, Liu Qiang did not choose to return home, but took a plane to South Korea.
When he was in South Korea, Liu Qiang was a little worried, thinking that once he was arrested, he would definitely be extradited to Japan.
Anyway, it was burned once, and twice. On January 8, Liu Qiang ran to the Japanese Embassy in South Korea with a mobilizer bottle on his back, and burned the embassy directly while the security was relaxing. This time he did not run away but stood there waiting for the police to arrive.
South Korean police arrested him and walked into the interrogation room. Liu Qiang admitted everything and told him about burning the Yasukuni Shrine. The South Korean police were shocked when they learned the news and released the news the next day, which caused a sensation in the world for a moment.
The news that a young man burned the Japanese Embassy in South Korea directly made the Japanese completely break the defense. The wave was not settled and the wave started again. Before Japan could react, South Korea continued to release fierce information. In fact, this young man was also an "unknown person" who burned the Yasukuni Shrine a few days ago.
This made the Japanese side very angry. They demanded severe punishment of Liu Qiang, and diplomatic officials even found the South Korean side in person to ask for an immediate extradition of Liu Qiang to Japan for trial.
After learning about it, our country asked the South Korean side to give a fair trial, but surprisingly, large-scale marches and petitions have been launched in South Korea.
They demanded the release of Liu Qiang, Liu Qiang's behavior is innocent, he is a national hero.
This puts great pressure on South Korea. A few days later, the South Korean court publicly tried the case. They believed that Liu Qiang's behavior did not cause any losses, nor did they suffer casualties, not to mention that he had a very good attitude towards pleading guilty. According to South Korean law, Liu Qiang was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
This decision aroused strong opposition from Japan. They asked South Korea to return Liu Qiang to Japan. South Korea directly refused and said that Liu Qiang's behavior was a protest against the "comfort woman" incident. According to International Public Law , South Korea has the right to refuse the Japanese request.
Japan suffered a loss and had to return home in disappointment. After ten months in prison, Liu Qiang was not subjected to any abuse or unfairness.
After being released from prison, in order to help him return to China and avoid being assassinated by Japan, the South Korean side also sent two extraordinary bodyguards to escort the whole process.
But after Liu Qiang returned to China, he was exposed online. Some people thought he was sensational, some people regarded him as a hero, his wife divorced him, and his parents also cut off relations with him.
Liu Qiang never thought that his family would be so incomprehensible. After experiencing a sluggish life, Liu Qiang cheered up. He felt that he did what he thought he should do and did not need to be understood or criticized by anyone.
In order to better promote his country's culture and history, he specially founded the History Research Association. On the anniversary of the 120th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he also took photos and promoted it. He wanted to spend the rest of his life to do something meaningful. As for what the outside world comments, he didn't care.
