TOKYO (Reuters) - The forced sterilisation of two women decades ago as teenagers was unconstitutional, a Japanese court said on Tuesday, but rejected their demands for compensation, in the first of about 20 such cases closely watched nationwide, media said.
Tens of thousands of people were sterilised, many without their consent, under a government programme aimed at preventing the birth of "inferior descendants" that ran until 1996.
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