text:  I think it's first of all worthwhile looking at a little bit of a background because it's a complicated case. As you mentioned there, it's about a terrible eugenics policy, discredited policy, which was in force in Japan between 1948 and 1996. In that period, 16,000 people were forcibly sterilized against their will. These were people with mental illnesses, hereditary diseases, sometimes even just intellectually limited diseases.