TOKYO: Japanese campaigners on Wednesday slammed a government report into the sterilisation of thousands under a eugenics law in place until 1996, saying it failed to take responsibility for the procedures.
The law allowed doctors to sterilise people with heritable intellectual disabilities, to"prevent ... poor quality descendants". It is"largely a compilation of what has been investigated and reported" which merely confirms"that it was an extremely terrible law", he told journalists on Wednesday. The Osaka High Court overturned a lower court decision, and ordered the national government to pay a combined ¥27.5 million to the elderly trio.
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