Film salvages wartime story of tragic sinking, heroic rescues
China DailyLeft: Lin A'gen, the last surviving fisherman, shakes hands with the relatives of the Lisbon Maru survivors, who came to visit Dongji Island in 2019. Full account To find people connected to survivors of the sinking, Fang accepted interviews with the BBC, and bought full-page His team received 300 emails, mostly from the children and relatives of the survivors, saying that they had heard the stories about the tragedy and were eager to share them. The team also interviewed Fumitaka Kurosawa, president of the Military History Society of Japan, who analyzed the intentions of the Japanese military commander Lieutenant Hideo Wada who gave the order to abandon the POWs. In 2019, Fang organized for some of the relatives of the Lisbon Maru survivors to visit Dongji Island to meet the children of the fishermen.