Japan's top court rules forced sterilisation law unconstitutional

The plaintiff in the Sendai lawsuit also wanted an official apology from the Japanese government, according to an essay at nippon.com (link below).

I wonder if she’ll get that?

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For decades, the government routinely infringed the basic rights of people with mental illnesses and disabilities, and for years since then the victims and their families have been ignored and silenced. These facts speak for themselves, and point unmistakably to serious shortcomings in Japanese society. Particularly distressing is the way in which politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and academia all allowed their intellectual, imaginative, and empathetic faculties to become so blunted that they lost their sense of social justice and fairness. I conclude this essay with a deep feeling of remorse. I hope the lessons of the past will ensure that similar mistakes are never repeated in the future. 

— Yonemoto Shōhei, Visiting Professor at the Komaba Organization for Education Excellence, University of Tokyo, and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.

https://www.nippon.com/en/currents/d00421/

Good on the supreme court for finally making a decision that does not involve some fanciful half-way unconstitutional purgatory. And good on those who fought on after the government’s token compensation law and multiple shameful attempts to avoid other compensation. Now, the Japan Medical Association should be in the firing line for they have a great deal of responsibility for this inhumanity. While the country was concentrating on bullies picking on the weaker kids in schools as its human rights focus, the government was bullying people into getting sterilised. Think on that for a moment. Or choose not to, if you cannot imagine, despite the evidence, that the prime threat to your rights and freedoms is always from your own government, even one with an apparently humane constitution.

Japan's top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 was unconstitutional.

Isn't that obvious, however in Japan even unlawful things still happened in work place. Because this is Japan.

This law was a shame to the country and it was practiced until the 90s.

But no individual will take responsibilities dur such cruel acts and law enactment. Financial compensation is nothing for the government and can not replace the suffering of people, for most more or less disabled and not able to fight against their destiny.

Finally..

The Supreme Court was quite right in its ruling that the 20-year statute of limitations should not apply when citizens are suing the government for gross injustice it committed in the past. Now you don’t have to give up if you feel you’re wronged by the government. I take my hat off to those victims.

Sadly in the USA still state courts, which is the state, can still force sterilize citizens. Crazy right. Japan is actually progressive on this compared to the USA. Japanese have more control over their bodies than the leader of the free world

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Sadly in the USA still state courts, which is the state, can still force sterilize citizens. Crazy right. Japan is actually progressive on this compared to the USA. Japanese have more control over their bodies than the leader of the free world

Sources or complete nonsense.

Any mandatory or forced / coerced medical procedure is unconstitutional, ethically unsound, against a person's Human Rights and the people pushing for it are morally bankrup - in all cases.

Period.

Where are the compensations?

Sources or complete nonsense.

Slap! Looks like a mighty reputable source!

Japan's top court ruled on Wednesday that a defunct eugenics law under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilised between 1948 and 1996 was unconstitutional.

USA should follow

The plaintiff in the Sendai lawsuit also wanted an official apology from the Japanese government, according to an essay at nippon.com (link below).

I wonder if she’ll get that?

The government "sincerely apologises" for the policy that "trampled on the human dignity" of victims, Kishida said, adding he would meet survivors in coming weeks to listen "face-to-face to their stories of suffering"