The Supreme Court of Japan has found a eugenics law forcing people with disabilities to undergo sterilisation until 1996 was unconstitutional, in an unprecedented ruling against the Japanese government.
Japan's government of the day legislated the practice to both slow population growth in the post-war baby boom and curb the "deterioration" in quality of offspring.Women in Japan face a $4,800 fine if they have a sterilisation procedure without their spouse's consent, but there is now a fight to have that changed.Of the roughly 25,000 people sterilised under EPL, about 16,500 were made to against their will, and some without their knowledge.
"The JSPN, as an academic society responsible for psychiatric care, offers a sincere and unreserved apology to the victims of forced sterilisation for the harm inflicted upon their lives and for the disregard of their human rights," president Masaru Mimura said. In civil law, the statute of limitations is a maximum time after an event until when legal proceedings can be initiated, which in this case was 20 years.
Victims live with the trauma of forced sterilisation decades on, several of whom underwent the surgery as children. Many bore lifelong medical complications, being sterilised through unsafe methods. Modern Japan has become actively natalist, attempting to shift cultural norms and actively increasing funding to boost childbirth.
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