TOKYO - Children as young as 9 were among around 25,000 people with disabilities sterilized in Japan under a now-defunct eugenics law, with 65 percent of the procedures carried out without consent and some being led to believe they were being treated for an illness, the Diet's first report on the issue showed Monday.
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