On August 27, 2026, Chinese media Observer Network reported that as the 10-year anniversary approaches since the murder of Chinese female international student Jiang Ge (JIANG GE) in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, in 2016, her mother, Jiang Qiulian (JIANG QIULIAN), published a memoir expressing her thoughts for her deceased beloved daughter.

The article introduced that Jiang Ge came to Japan to study in April 2015, and this year marks the 10-year anniversary of the incident on November 3, 2016, when she was stabbed to death with a knife in front of an apartment in Tokyo by the ex-boyfriend of her Chinese best friend, with whom she was living. It conveyed that her mother, Jiang Qiulian, posted a long memoir on SNS on the 26th of this month titled '10 Years of Recollection: To My Daughter Jiang Ge.'

The article then described how Jiang Qiulian expressed an unhealing deep sense of loss in her memoir, stating, 'No matter how much regret and remorse I hold in my heart, not a single day passed without thinking of my daughter. Now that 10 years have passed since then, I want to write down my feelings to commemorate this day 10 years ago when I reunited with my daughter in Japan.'

The article mentioned the circumstances of the mother filing a civil lawsuit after the incident against the woman who was Jiang Ge's best friend and roommate, seeking damages for infringement of right to life and other reasons in a court in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China. The Chengyang District People's Court of Qingdao City stated in its first-instance judgment on January 10, 2022, that the defendant, the best friend, failed to inform Jiang Ge of the imminent danger to herself, closed the apartment door for her own safety, locking Jiang Ge out, and was found to have committed gross negligence that led to her murder, and ordered her to pay compensation for economic losses of 496,000 yuan (approximately 11.76 million yen) and emotional distress compensation of 200,000 yuan (approximately 4.74 million yen).

Furthermore, the article detailed that although the defendant appealed the verdict, the Qingdao Intermediate People's Court rejected the appeal and upheld the first-instance judgment on December 30, 2022, and also ordered the defendant to bear the second-instance litigation costs of 10,760 yuan (approximately 255,000 yen), and that the defendant's subsequent request for retrial to the Shandong Provincial High People's Court was also rejected, confirming the mother's victory. (Edited and translated by Kawajiri)