In a trial in which a man and woman in their 70s in Kumamoto Prefecture sought compensation from the government for being forced to undergo sterilization under the former Eugenic Protection Law, the Kumamoto District Court accepted the plaintiff's claim and ordered the government to compensate.
This is the third similar lawsuit that has been filed across the country that recognizes the state's liability for compensation.
A 78-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman from Kumamoto Prefecture were forced to undergo sterilization under the former Eugenic Protection Law due to a disability in themselves or their family members in the 1950s and 1960s. I was asking for compensation.
In the ruling on the 23rd, presiding judge Yuichiro Nakatsuji of the Kumamoto District Court acknowledged the country's liability for compensation and ordered the country to pay 22 million yen to the two plaintiffs.
At the trial, the plaintiffs argued that the former Eugenic Protection Law violated the Constitution and caused serious human rights violations, but the government has lost its right to seek compensation as more than 20 years have passed since the surgery. I was asked to dismiss the complaint as such.
This is the third similar lawsuit that has been brought up across the country, following last year's Osaka and Tokyo High Courts, to order the government to compensate.