An NHK documentary, "The Unbreakable Silence" on Japan's Eugenics Protection Law which was in effect from 1948 until 1996, and declared unconstitutional by Japan's Supreme Court in July of 2024:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/eugenic-law/
It really seems to focus on stories of survivors who were victimized under such things, as it should.
What I have as a question (maybe it was answered, and I missed it?), given that Japan was under US Occupation in 1948 and the US Occupation even wrote Japan's Constitution: how much of these laws were actually written by their American occupiers? My suspicion is, all of them originally.
After all, forced sterilization in California wasn't repealed in laws (introduced as "Asexualization Acts" in the 1910s and 1920s) until 1979.
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