Matsuyama City looks to employ more disabled people

Written with extracts from Nikkei

May 3rd 2018

EHIME Prefecture – On May 2nd, the Iyo Bank opened a subsidiary called “Yoyogin Challenge & Smile” to support the employment of persons with disabilities within the administrative center of Matsuyama City in Ehiime prefecture on Shikoku island. This was an initiative started in response to the fact that specialized companies for disabled people people was established in 2014. Such companies aim to acquire funds to form a subsidiary company that can help create jobs for disabled people.