About Haru Asada
Lived 1882 – 1902 (aged 19–20). Haru Asada was a Japanese politician.
was the Japanese teenage concubine of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China.
Asada was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and spoke both fluent Chinese and English. She encountered Sun when she worked as a maid in Sun's house in Yokohama. She died in 1902, and Sun married a younger Japanese girl named Kaoru Otsuki in 1905.
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Who was Haru Asada?
Japanese concubine of Sun yat-sen
When was Haru Asada born?
Haru Asada was born in 1882.
When did Haru Asada die?
Haru Asada died in 1902.
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Haru Asada was a politician.
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Haru Asada was Japanese.
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