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Japan's Supreme Court declares in a historic ruling that a law requiring surgery to remove a person's reproductive capabilities to register a gender change was unconstitutional in a case brought by a transgender woman.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Oct. 25 that requiring transgender individuals to undergo surgery to remove their reproductive organs for gender changes in family registers is unconstitutional.
Japan's top court on Friday acquitted a former Vietnamese trainee of abandoning her stillborn twins, overturning lower court rulings that sentenced her to a suspended prison term. In the first finalized ruling concerning the abandonment of a stillborn child, four judges on the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench unanimously ruled…
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Japan's top court on March 24 acquitted a former Vietnamese trainee of abandoning her stillborn twins, overturning lower court rulings that sentenced her to a suspended prison term.