Japan court rejects damages suit by man in forced sterilization case

TOKYO - A Japanese court on Tuesday rejected a 30 million yen ($280,000) damages suit filed by a 77-year-old man who was sterilized against his will in 1957 under the now-defunct eugenics protection law.The Tokyo District Court did not rule on whether the obsolete law that mandated the government to stop people with intellectual disabilities from reproducing was unconstitutional, a focal point in this case.But Presiding Judge Masaharu Ito said in the ruling that the sterilization surgery "infringed upon freedom ensured by the Constitution."The plaintiff underwent surgery aged around 14 whe…READ FULL ARTICLE