because last time the paralympics was held here in tokyo back in 196a, japan was still forcibly sterilising disabled people to prevent them from having children of their own. that so called eugenics protection law was only finally repealed in 1996. and to this day, the japanese government has not fully recognised the role it played in violating the rights of more than 20,000 disabled people. yumi suzuki is one of those victims. she was born with cerebral palsy. and when she was 12 years old, her womb was removed without her knowledge or consent. when i found out i can never be a mother, it broke my heart, she tells me. suzuki san and other victims are now suing the japanese government, demanding it compensate them for what was done. i don t want money, she says.
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Japan Curling Fans Are Slightly Crazy
This is . really something.
This is . really something.
I’ve been watching Yama do this for the last few days and nights, and his commitment deserves to be noted.
“Yama” is Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, who played for skip Yusuke Morozumi from 2005 through 2018, competing in six worlds for Japan plus the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
Yama has been skipping his own men’s team for the past few seasons, and he plays mixed doubles with none other than Satsuki Fujisawa, the women’s Olympic bronze medalist from 2018.
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Yama is extremely active on social media and has his own YouTube channel. His plan for the week of the women’s worlds was to comment on the Japanese games that were being televised in Japan but, as curling fans know, there’s been no TV or webstreamed content of any kind due to positive COVID-19 test results among seven members of the broadcast crew.