'They stole my life away': women forcibly sterilised by Japan speak out

Eugenic Protection Law subjected 16,500 people to forced sterilisation and was aimed at eliminating ‘inferior’ children

Junko Iizuka* was 16 when she was taken to a clinic in north-east Japan and forced to have a mystery operation that, she later discovered, would prevent her from ever having children.

“I was given anaesthetic and I didn’t remember anything after that,” she says.

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