text:  This is Danielle Jawowiecka with the BBC News. Hello. A new ruling from Japan's Supreme Court will allow thousands of people sterilised against their will to claim compensation. About 16,000 people were forcibly sterilised under a eugenics law that was only scrapped in 1996. The court has decided that Japan's 20-year statute of limitations does not apply in these cases. Here's our Asia-Pacific editor, Mickey Bristow.