-- The parents of a boy who suffers from hemophilia filed a lawsuit Friday against a social welfare corporation that manages a nursery school in Takamatsu and one of the school's staff members for telling other parents about the boy's disease.
The boy's parents filed the suit with the Takamatsu District Court, seeking 1.5 million yen in damages.
The couple claim in the suit that their son's reputation and privacy were violated by the staff member telling people he had the disease, because there is prejudice against hemophiliacs since the 1980s when an AIDS-related tainted-blood scandal occurred in Japan.
In their lawsuit, the boy's parents also said that before their son entered the nursery school, they asked the staff to keep his health status secret until they chose to tell people themselves.