Saburo Kita's arrangements of paper flowers are a bittersweet reminder of the life he had hoped for before he was forcibly sterilized under Japan's now-defunct eugenics law.Kita was labeled a delinquent as a child and sterilized at age 14. He was told the procedure was simply "to remove the bad part." After the surgery, he discovered he would never be able to have children.He then lived at a child welfare facility where he learned his paper craft. He chose not to reveal the surgery to his wife until just before her death, calling it a "painful secret."Now 82, Kita offers the paper flowers h…READ FULL ARTICLE
