Kishida apologizes to victims of forced sterilizations

How ironic that Kishida will personally apologize to these people but refuses to apologize to the Comfort Women of Korea, Taiwan, etc. Somehow he and former PM’s do not acknowledge the cruelty which Japanese soldiers inflicted on these young women 70+ years ago?!?

These people were all sterilized without their knowledge under a law in effect for FIFTY YEARS by a people who consider themselves "superior". And what do those people, robbed of the ability to have offspring and live on through them, get? An amount of money you might get for one year at a decent-paying job. That's it. That's what futures are worth, and their children's futures, and theirs. And yet STILL Kishida is trying to negotiate even THAT.

It would only be more shocking if they demanded victims, family, and the media not talk about it after the issue is "resolved".

falseflagsteveToday  07:02 am JST

They sterilise innocents yet dint do for cases offenders, go figure. What’s wrong with this world?

Yeah, they did. There was a really famous one back in 1952. A sex case done for Gross Indecency. He had a choice of imprisonment or probation; the probation included chemical castration. So that’s what he did. Instead of going to prison.

His name?

Alan Turing.

Unfortunately, SNS at Japan are still full of eugenics or discrimination against social vulnerable.

But, officials or platformers do nothing about it.

the law allowed people with intellectual disabilities, mental illnesses or hereditary disorders to be sterilized without their consent to prevent the birth of "inferior" offspring

I don't think that's entirely accurate. I think the prevention of "inferior" offspring only applied to those with hereditary disorders. For those with intellectual disabilities and mental illness, I think the concern was that they would be unable to raise kids properly. But the main issue was the way decisions were made and the numbers affected.

In the UK, there have been recent cases of forced sterilization. These were not for reasons of eugenics, but because of the mental state of the person. One such case involved a woman with learning difficulties who already had given birth to six kids. All the kids had been put into child care by social services. It was a judge who made the decision, and he was considered to be acting on the woman's behalf because she was considered mentally incapable of making her own decisions. I don't envy the judge in this case.

This hasn't appeared to make much of a dent on the overwhelming numbers of wee tods I have to interact with here.

This is a serious violation of human rights !

Good measure but Kishida didn't do this. This is just like when Bill Clinton during the late 90s 'apologized' to the West African nations and empires for that ugly 400-year slave trade. It's 'kind of' easy to do when you had nothing to do with it and it's in the long ago past.

Still, better later than never.

Destin SkyeToday 10:46 am JST

I was just reading about forced sterilization around the world and I have to say that I am shocked to read that in the United States, eugenics and forced sterilization are still legal. And that the last time Americans were forcibly sterilized was in 2020 when President Trump ordered the forced sterilization of all the women being held in detention in the American state of Georgia because they were Hispanic. It also says prior to that there are unknown thousands who were sterilized in other states after being separated from their children and their children forced to be adopted. How cruel America is!

The last legal forced sterilization of citizens in the US was in 1981. The Georgia example you bring up for no reason is a case of ICE detainees not being given proper counseling in a language they could understand.

When there is a fork in the road that needs a moral compass to guide it, collectivist cultures tend to get so bogged down and muddied by groupthink that the clear voice rarely appears and wrong road is often taken. Not admitting it for all these years too says a lot.

Having said that, better late than never ne!

I was just reading about forced sterilization around the world and I have to say that I am shocked to read that in the United States, eugenics and forced sterilization are still legal. And that the last time Americans were forcibly sterilized was in 2020 when President Trump ordered the forced sterilization of all the women being held in detention in the American state of Georgia because they were Hispanic. It also says prior to that there are unknown thousands who were sterilized in other states after being separated from their children and their children forced to be adopted. How cruel America is!

I don't know about other countries, but it used to happen in Sweden as well. Disabled people, prostitutes, homosexuals, and others where sterilized for many years. These people at least deserve an appology.

In the municipal housing where I live , a lady probably in her 30's or 40's use to blast profanities that the whole govt housing could probably heard. The mother is bound on a wheelchair and most probably receiving govt financial assistance as both aren't working. I always sigh hearing the younger lady blaspheme her mother and almost everyone. Just wish the mom had sterilization and that I'm the one receiving their financial aid.

Apologies are a start, but compensation for that would be a lot better. I really hope that Japan loosens up on how draconian it is when it comes to punishing criminals. If there was one thing about Japan's past that should no longer exist today, it's that.

Now what about those who were forced to take gender confirmation surgery to be able to legally change their gender?

This practice not confined to Japan.

That may well be true, Guru, but in the wrong hands that serves as a retroactive justification for this abomination. Comparison to some other place, rather than ideals, such as human rights, which Japan has ostensibly been signed up to, takes us on a road to North Korea. But I know what you are trying to say.

Sterilization is too much, but I see nothing wrong with incentivizing people at risk to not reproduce. I'm suggesting guidance and financial support for alternatives, such as adoption.

Love That Dog in the photo, he or she probably thinking Bow Twice one for me and one for may best Human friend.

""In front of more than 130 plaintiffs, lawyers and supporters, Kishida said, "It is with deep regret that at least 25,000 people have suffered the grave harm of being sterilized," under the eugenics law, which was in effect between 1948 and 1996.""

Almost 50 years, at least 25,000 victims, plus a Supreme Court Ruling then the government acknowledges that Forced Sterilization is WRONG and Inhumane, who ever proposed and signed this Crime into law should be the one Apologizing next to Mr. Kishida.

This practice not confined to Japan.

A certain ME country routinely forced long acting sterilising injections onto Ethiopian women who had migrated or were seeking to migrate to this certain ME country.

And in the recent past too.

Eugenics, pure and simple.

the worst human rights violation in Japan's post-World War II history, the law allowed people with intellectual disabilities, mental illnesses or hereditary disorders to be sterilized without their consent to prevent the birth of "inferior" offspring.

With the medical profession's approval, don't forget. But the totems of human rights concern have been school bullying and barrier-free access, which, worthy as they are, tend to distract from authority as your biggest potential human rights violator.

That's sterilization still being conducted until 1996 in Japan even after cold war ends. Not until recently Japan supreme court ruled that practice is unconstitutional. Only after that JGovt acknowledge their mistake and willing to bow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240703_21/

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Those plaintiffs are being forced to prove that practice is unconstitutional because JGovt try to use statue of limitation as an excuse to avoid paying damage compensation.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/554/

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apologized Wednesday to victims of forced sterilization surgery under a now-defunct eugenics protection law

Given the depopulation, aging and 'labor shortages ' afflicting Japan the ironies of such a program are rich.

And how the courts and LDP gov have resisted righting this wrong for so long shows they only have their own interests at heart.

They sterilise innocents yet dint do for cases offenders, go figure. What’s wrong with this world?