“While there are still areas of improvement within society, today’s ruling is a welcome sign that the voices of survivors of sexual violence in Japan will not go unheard, and that accountability for such rights abuses is possible,” Kanae Doi, Japan Director at Human Rights Watch told the BBC.
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