When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

She explains that, in many ways, it felt like an inevitability, having sensed that it would only be a matter of time before she found herself there. "I was like, Oh, God – here we go," she remembers.

Plaintiffs claim Japan's sterilisation laws reduce women to childbirth vessels, undermining autonomy and reinforcing patriarchy in an aging society.

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