In court, Mais and Hindu family agree man won’t be reburied according to Islamic rites; next-of-kin to inherit assets
The Supreme Court also ruled that a 20-year statute of limitations on compensation claims could not be applied, a major victory for victims who have endured decades of suffering. “I’ve spent an agonising 66 years because of the government surgery. I want my life back that I was robbed of,” victim Saburo Kita, who uses a pseudonym, said before today’s ruling.Kita was convinced to undergo a vasectomy when he was 14 at a facility housing troubled children. He only confided what had happened to his wife shortly before she died in 2013.
That dark history was thrust back under the spotlight in 2018 when a woman in her 60s sued the government over a procedure she had undergone at age 15, opening the floodgates for similar lawsuits. Regional courts have mostly agreed in recent years that the eugenics law constituted a violation of Japan’s constitution.
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