Published: March 17, 2019
About 16,500 people were targeted by law that aimed to stop the birth of children described as ‘inferior’
Thousands of victims of forced sterilisation in Japan will finally be offered compensation for their suffering under a now-defunct eugenics law.
About 16,500 people, mostly women with disabilities, were targeted between 1948 and 1996 under a Japanese law that aimed to stop the birth of children described as “inferior”.
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