2023-07-13 14:41:18
By Régis Arnaud
Posted 48 minutes ago, Updated 20 minutes ago
March in support of victims of forced sterilization on the occasion, in February 2022, of an appeal trial before the Osaka High Court of Justice. Naoya Azuma / The Yomiuri Shimbun via Archyde.com Connect
STORY – Between 1948 and 1996, Tokyo carried out a program of forced sterilization, which claimed tens of thousands of victims. To those who take it to court, the Japanese state, which has still not recognized its fault, is fighting a fierce battle.
Tokyo (Japan)
Nine years. This is the first age from which tens of thousands of Japanese men and women, deemed “defective”, were sterilized, most without their consent, as part of a state program that lasted from 1948 to 1996. After decades of indifference, the Diet has just received a 1,400-page report casting a harsh light on “Japan’s worst human rights violation of post-war period”, according to lawyer Koji Niisato, president of the Association of Victims of Forced Sterilization. This program, worthy of the Nazi regime – even worse in certain aspects – started following the fall of the Reich, but the State and the medical profession continue to discard.
We must go back to the genesis of the legal framework of this policy. After the war, Japan began its reconstruction in full demographic explosion. He wants to control his population, and the “qualityof it. Yasaburô Taniguchi, parliamentarian and doctor, presented in 1948 a “protection law…
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