July 9 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his administration will not appeal a recent court ruling requiring the government to pay damages to relatives of Japanese who were quarantined with leprosy decades ago.
A Japanese district court ordered the government last month to pay $3.4 million to more than 500 family members of leprosy patients quarantined between 1907 and 1996, when Japan required patients with leprosy to be segregated in sanitariums. Some thought Japan would appeal the ruling before the Friday deadline.