The health ministry plans to assign a panel of experts as early as this summer to investigate problems with aesthetic medicine following a surge in complaints from patients.
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.
The Unification Church has acknowledged that it made arrangements for childless followers to “adopt” the children of other members without following the proper procedures.
Health experts urged caution, but not anti-virus measures, after 37 prefectures reported week-on-week increases in new COVID-19 cases, including Japan’s most populated areas.