Japan court rules defunct eugenics law unconstitutional, denies damages

A Japanese court on Tuesday ruled as unconstitutional the now-defunct eugenics protection law that authorized the government to stop people with disabilities from having children, but rejected a claim for damages sought by five people.It was the sixth ruling in a series of similar lawsuits and the fourth declaring the obsolete law to be unconstitutional. Demands for compensation have been rejected in all the rulings on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired 20 years after the forced surgeries.The plaintiffs are planning to appeal the ruling, according to their lawyers.On Tu…READ FULL ARTICLE