TOKYO: Japanese campaigners on Wednesday slammed a government report on the sterilization of thousands of people under a eugenics law in place until 1996, saying it failed to take responsibility for the procedures.

The 1,400-page report submitted to Japan's parliament this week details how some 16,500 people — including some as young as 9 — were sterilized without their consent under the law in force from 1948.

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