Japan Top Court Rules Eugenics Law Unconstitutional, Victims Seek Justice
Japan’s government acknowledges that around 16,500 people were forcibly sterilised under the eugenics law Tokyo: Japan’s top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 was unconstitutional, local media reported. The Supreme Court also ruled that a 20-year statute of limitations on