ESASHI, Hokkaido Prefectural officials are investigating a local facility for people with intellectual disabilities after learning that eight couples, each hoping to live together or marry, underwent sterilization procedures at the organization’s urging.
Six more victims of a forced sterilization program are suing the central government, claiming that the operations performed under the former Eugenic Protection Law were unconstitutional.
Academics and midwives on June 27 submitted a petition to the health ministry demanding the removal of a legal clause that requires pregnant women to obtain the consent of their spouses to have abortions.
A Japanese court handed down a ruling that has wide-ranging implications for victims of a forced sterilization program by ordering the central government to compensate a 78-year-old man who underwent the procedure in 1957.