This general view shows a plenary session of upper house house after Eugenics Protection Law was passed in parliament in Tokyo Wednesday, April 25, 2019. Japan’s government apologized to tens of thousands of victims forcibly sterilized under the now-defunct Eugenics Protection Law and promised to pay compensation. An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized without consent under the 1948 Eugenics Protection Law, which remained in place until 1996. It was quietly renamed the Maternity Protection Law in 1996, when the discriminatory condition was removed. However, the redress law does not cover those who had to abort their pregnancies, according to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.

Source: Washington Post April 24, 2019 03:49 UTC