Japan’s top court rules forced sterilisation law unconstitutional

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Japan's Supreme Court rules defunct eugenics law unconstitutional, paving way for victim compensation.

Victims of forced sterilisation under a now-defunct eugenics law, celebrate with lawyers and supporters outside of the Supreme Court of Japan in Tokyo on July 3, 2024. – Japan’s top court ruled on July 3 that a defunct eugenics law under which around 16,500 people were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 was unconstitutional, local media reported.

“For the state to evade responsibility for damages payments would be extremely unfair and unjust, and absolutely intolerable,” the court in Tokyo said. Kita was convinced to undergo a vasectomy when he was 14 at a facility housing troubled children. He only told his wife what had happened shortly before she died in 2013.

 

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