OSAKA The Osaka High Court on Feb. 27 upheld a lower court decision to allow a retrial for a man who died in prison after being convicted of murder based on spotty evidence.
Government practices, such as forced sterilizations, conducted under the former Eugenic Protection Law were so heinous that a court decided that the 20-year statute of limitations should not apply.
OSAKA The Osaka High Court on Feb. 22 for the first time ordered the central government to compensate plaintiffs forcibly sterilized under a postwar eugenics policy.
A Japanese court on Feb. 22 ordered the state to compensate three people with disabilities over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenics protection law, awarding damages for the first time among similar suits filed across Japan.