No Apology Planned for Sterilized Women
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The government said it doesn’t plan to apologize or compensate more than 16,000 disabled women who were forcibly sterilized over five decades. The program was legal at the time and documented in public records, the government said. An official said the government does not plan to further investigate the program. Japan legalized sterilization in 1948. Under the law, revoked last year, doctors did not need consent to sterilize the mentally or physically disabled.
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