The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Japan top court orders government to pay damages over forced sterilizationTOKYO - Japan's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to plaintiffs who were forced to undergo sterilization surgery in the 1950s to 1970s under a now-defunct eugenics protection law, ruling for the first time that the law was unconstitutional.In its ruling on five lawsuits in which plaintiffs sought compensation, the court judged the statute of limitations of 20 years for an unlawful act does not apply to ca…READ FULL ARTICLE