Children aged 15 and below underwent sterilization under Japan's now-defunct 1948 eugenic protection law in at least 13 of 47 prefectures due to mental disabilities and other reasons, a Kyodo News tally showed Wednesday.The latest findings, which show the youngest such child was aged 9, raise suspicions that sterilization may have been forced on young girls who had no possibility of becoming pregnant in suspected deviation of a subsequent state notification attached to the law."It would be surprising if such sterilization was implemented widely," Keiko Toshimitsu, a visiting bioethics resea…READ FULL ARTICLE
