Disability News Japan Podcast:”My Name Is Junko Iizuka, I Was Forced To Undergo Eugenics Surgery”

By Barrier Free Japan

June 23 2023

JAPAN – The audio in this podcast is a short extract from ‘The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan’ video “Victims of the Eugenic Protection Act” streamed live on 21 Jun 2023:

The speaker, Junko Iizuka (a pseudonym), from Miyagi Prefecture, was forced to undergo forced sterilization surgery when she was sixteen years old.