Japan to Compensate Forcibly Sterilized Patients, Decades After the Fact Under a eugenics law repealed in 1996, thousands of Japanese were sterilized because of intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:Alex Salmond, Scotland’s Former First Minister, Is ArrestedIn Davos, Prince William Calls for Action on Mental HealthWhat Is Happening in Venezuela? How It Got Here and Why It MattersPrince William on Mental Health: ‘No One Wanted to Talk About It’Diana Athill Dies at 101; Wrote Cleareyed Memoirs of Love and SexRussia Warns U.S. Against Venezuela Intervention