“Chikara Sakaguchi, the first Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2001, said that it is “important” to compensate those who underwent forced sterilization surgeries under the defunct eugenics protection law (1948-1996) in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun.”
“Four victims of forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenics protection law (1948-1996) in Hokkaido and Kumamoto prefectures are set to file lawsuits on June 28 with respective district courts seeking damages from the national government, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned.”
“The state will reject that argument by citing a past Supreme Court decision that found the state should be held responsible for violating an individual’s rights only in exceptional cases, the plaintiff’s lawyers said.”
“All Japan Deaf Federation (headquarters / Tokyo) surveyed hearing-impaired people nationwide, and 70 people answered that they were forced to have sterilization surgery and have abortions. The Federation held a press conference in Osaka on the 9th June.”
“The late official, Shunichi Kakurai, who headed the then Health and Welfare Ministry’s public health bureau, also asserted that the law’s provision that allowed forced sterilization operations as “necessary for public good” was “very problematic.” ”
“A woman in Kumamoto city is seeking damages and has given notice of her intention to file a complaint in the Kumamoto district court; having undergone surgery without having a disorder.”
“I’d like you to listen carefully to the stakeholders’ story that discriminatory sterilization has been performed”
Written with extracts from the Nishi Nippon Shimbun June 1st 2018 Kazumi Shishido (81), a hearing-impaired person living in theContinue Reading
“More than 900 victims of forced sterilizations have been newly identified in 11 prefectures under the postwar Eugenic Protection Law, according to the latest Asahi Shimbun survey.
The additional records and documents found between mid-May and mid-March list 914 names of men and women in 11 prefectures, bringing the total to 4,773 in 29 prefectures.”
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