Huang Youliang, the last comfort woman, living in Lingshui, south China’s Hainan Province, died yesterday, aged 90. She was one of eight Chinese comfort women who sued Japanese government in 2001. /Chinanews.com Photo

Huang was raped by Japanese soldiers in 1941 at the age of 14. A year later, she was sent to a Japanese infantry camp based in Sanya, capital of Hainan Province, and detained as a comfort woman, enduring physical tortures. She was freed after one of the women from her village lied to the soldiers about her father’s death. /Chinanews.com Photo

In 2001, eight Chinese comfort women, including Huang, from Hainan pursued a joint lawsuit against the Japanese government, requesting official apologies. However, after 10 years of painstaking efforts, they were told that civilians were unqualified to sue a country. Four comfort women from the group are still alive. /Chinanews.com Photo