Huang Youliang was the last Chinese “comfort woman” to have sued the Japanese government. She died on Saturday in southern China’s Hainan Province at the age of 90. In 2001, eight Chinese “comfort women” took legal action against the Japanese government. Ten years later, they were told civilians were unqualified to sue a country. All four cases to seek justice ended in failure. During the Japanese invasion, at least 200,000 women in China were forced by Japanese soldiers into sexual labor. Only 14 of them are still alive today.
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