Editing Sterilization (medicine) (section)

==== Japan ====
An example of forced sterilization that was ended within the last two decades is Japan's Race [[Eugenics in Japan|Eugenic Protection Law]], which required citizens with mental disorders to be sterilized.  This policy was active from 1940 until 1996, when it and all other eugenic policies in [[Japan]] were abolished.<ref name="The Enactment of Japan's Sterilization Laws">Matsubara, Yôko. "The Enactment of Japan's Sterilization Laws in the 1940s: A Prelude to Postwar Eugenic Policy." ''The History of Science Society of Japan''. 8.2 (1998): 187–201.</ref>  In many cases, sterilization policies were not explicitly compulsory in that they required [[consent]].  However, this meant that men and women were often coerced into agreeing to the procedure without being in the right state of mind or receiving all of the necessary information.  Under the Japanese [[leprosy]] policies, citizens with leprosy were not forced into being sterilized; however, they had been placed involuntarily into segregated and quarantined communities.<ref name="The Enactment of Japan's Sterilization Laws" />