Japan's Supreme Court finds welfare benefit cuts unlawful

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How do we get the hundreds of thousands of professionally unemployed people off the couch, asks the Advisory Council on Migration. That is simple, namely by forcing every professionally unemployed person to work, states reader Chris Wiets.

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In a ruling on appeal in a lawsuit over whether the government's gradual cuts in welfare benefits between 2013 and 2015 violated the Public Assistance Law, which guarantees a healthy and cultured life, the Supreme Court's Third Petty Bench (Chief Justice Katsuya Uga) on the 27th issued the first unified ruling that the cuts were "illegal." In a similar lawsuit brought by more than 1,000 people in 29 prefectures across the country, the judicial s…