By Barrier Free Japan
October 7 2026
Otsu, Shiga Prefecture – It has been discovered through research that Omi Gakuen, a facility for children with intellectual disabilities in Shiga Prefecture founded by Kazuo Itoga, who was praised as the “father of disability welfare,” gave a 16-year-old girl with an intellectual disability the false explanation that “your bed-wetting will stop” when applying for her forced sterilization in 1952, during the period when the Eugenic Protection Law was in effect (1948–1996). The law permitted sterilization to be carried out through deception. This is the first time that the specific means of deception used in such a case have been identified in Shiga Prefecture.
Episode notes:
‘Japan’s “Father of Disability Welfare”Applied for Forced Sterilization, Told 16-Year-Old Girl bed-wetting will stop’:
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