Japan apologises for its now-revoked Eugenics Protection Law under which thousands of people were sterilised without their consent
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, seen here in a file photo, told a news conference that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would issue a statement on the compensation law on April 24, 2019.
Many of the victims were physically or cognitively disabled, but others suffered from mental illness, leprosy - now a curable affliction known as Hansen's disease - or simply had behavioural problems. Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief cabinet secretary, told a news conference that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was set to issue a statement later on Wednesday.
Japan's "Eugenics Protection Law" came into effect in 1948 as it struggled with food shortages and rebuilding a ravaged nation, and was only revoked in 1996.
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