“The man was not using paid services at the facility, such as meal provision, newspaper delivery and room cleaning, and doctors were not visiting him, so the facility workers did not routinely check on him.”
“Yumi Suzuki said, “If you have not experienced this kind of discrimination the disabled have received, than you cannot understand it.” ”
“Yumi Suzuki, a woman with cerebral palsy, who is now 63 years old, filed a civil law suit at the Kobe District Court on Wednesday February 27th seeking compensation of 11 million yen for violations she experienced under the former Eugenic Protection Law, which was a law enforced in Japan from 1948 until 1996.
“三ノ宮では、障害者グループ「7.26神戸アクトン」が障害問題の認識を高めています。”
“The ‘7.26 Kobe Action Group’ has been attempting to raise disability awareness since the killing of disabled people at a Sagamihara care home on July 26th 2016.”
“The policy of Hyogo prefecture at this time clearly states that the policy was to “seek medical assistance from physicians to aggressively perform eugenic surgery by doctor’s application, and guidance and awareness of stakeholders”. It was also recorded that a system to subsidize the costs of forced sterilization surgery was introduced depending on the type of disability.”
“Among the plaintiffs, Kimiko Kobayashi (86) of Akashi City got pregnant shortly after marrying her husband (86), but was taken to a hospital by her mother and was ordered have to surgery to abort. At the same time, sterilization surgery, unknown to Kobayashi and her husband, sterilisation surgery was also performed.”
