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1. The Supreme Court of Japan rules that Japan's defunct forced sterilization law, active from 1948 to 1996, was unconstitutional.
   2024-07-04 21:06:50 (First version)
2. The Supreme Court of Japan rules that the country's forced sterilization law, which was in effect from 1948 to 1996, was unconstitutional.
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