By KAYOKO SEKIGUCHI/ Staff Writer
January 31, 2020 at 16:45 JST
Tsukasa Katagata stands in a room he had prepared for his future child on the second floor of his house in Iwate Prefecture on Jan. 27. However, a forced sterilization operation robbed him of that dream, he said. (Kayoko Sekiguchi)
Two people who were forcibly sterilized even after the notorious Eugenic Protection Law was abolished say the government violated their human rights by failing to properly inform the public about the change in legislation. [Read More]
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