{"id":295221,"date":"2023-07-24T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295221"},"modified":"2023-07-23T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:21:41","slug":"japan-report-tens-thousands-sterilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/japan-report-tens-thousands-sterilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking report from Japan reveals involuntarily sterilization of tens of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new parliamentary report from Japan has revealed that approximately 25,000 people were sterilized under the country’s former eugenics laws, the majority of whom did not consent. Some of the victims were children.<\/p>\n

According to The Japan Times<\/a>, the laws were in place from 1948 through 1966, and approximately 65% of the people sterilized were forced to undergo the procedures. Children as young as nine years old were among the victims, and many of them believed they were being treated for a legitimate illness.<\/p>\n

People with intellectual disabilities, mental illness, or hereditary disorders were among those forcibly sterilized, as the Japanese government wanted to prevent the births of so-called “inferior” children. Japanese politicians also wanted to cut population rates due to food shortages after World War II. Though the law ended in 1966, eugenic propaganda continued to spread long after; The Japan Times cited a high school textbook from the 1970s which said the government was working on the “country’s eugenics to improve and enhance the genetic predisposition of the entire public.”<\/p>\n