The plaintiffs' lawyers and others have been sentenced to March 1 after the first ruling in which people forced to undergo sterilization under the former Yusei Protection Law ordered the country to compensate in a court case against the country. On the day, I requested the country not to appeal to the Supreme Court.
A woman in her 70s and a husband in her 80s who live in Kansai for being forced to undergo sterilization based on the former Yusei Protection Law in the 1965s, and a woman in her 70s who has intellectual disabilities due to the aftereffects of illness. In a trial in which a total of three people sued the country, the Osaka High Court of the second trial said on February 22 that "the former eugenics protection law is inhumane and violates the constitution" and ordered the country to compensate for the first time. I handed down the judgment.
In response to this, the plaintiffs' lawyers and others who have filed similar complaints in various places visited the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on March 1, handed over the request, and demanded that the judgment be accepted without appeal.
In addition to this, the request withdraws the claim and relieves the victims regarding the application of the "exclusion period" in which the right to seek compensation is lost 20 years after the state has received the tort alleged in various courts. We are requesting that we have a forum for discussions.
Koji Niisato, co-representative of the National Eugenics Protection Law Damage Defense Team, said, "The decision was finally made to rescue the victims due to the greatest human rights violations after the war. We should start moving toward. "