Two parliamentary secretaries who belonged to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction have resigned over their failure to report political funds, but both said they would keep their Lower House seats.
Children as young as 9 were among the around 25,000 people with disabilities sterilized in Japan under a now-defunct eugenics law, with 65 percent of the procedures carried out without consent and some even deceived as undergoing treatment for an illness, the Diet's first report on the issue showed Monday.
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A draft report on the nation s former eugenics law, under which about 25,000 people with disabilities and certain diseases were sterilized, many of them forcibly, highlights the inappropriate manner in which the policy was enforced.
Former head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Lobsang Sangay paid a visit to Japan to discuss the issues concerning the human rights of the Tibetan community.