Overview
- The national government recognized compensation for Sapporo resident Hidehiro Takahashi, 87, and for his late wife under the former Eugenic Protection Law.
- Authorities relied on a Sapporo City record of the wife seeking advice on a restorative procedure after the hospital could not produce surgical files.
- The approval notice was dated October 22, following Takahashi’s application filed in May.
- Because the wife had died and no hospital records existed, officials could not verify surgical scars, yet the claim was still approved.
- A supporting attorney said the decision marks a step toward relief, noting the wife was subjected around 1966 to an induced abortion and sterilization.