The very idea of a young girl wanting to go abroad alone aroused a tumult of opposition from the outraged Chen family, but her father took her side, and in 1943, at the age of eighteen, Chen Li-hung sailed from Keelung harbor, and after four days and three nights at sea she arrived, dazed and seasick, in Japan.
聽說一個女孩子家要獨自出國，震驚的陳氏家族屢見反對聲浪。在陳父的獨排眾議下，十八歲的陳麗鴻於民國卅二年，在基隆港坐了四天三夜的船，一路昏昏沈沈地到了日本。