Disability News Japan Podcast: Newsweek Japan Responds to Hiroshima Mazda Wheelchair Video Apology Calling It “unbelievable”

By Barrier Free Japan

May 21 2023

JAPAN – On May 17th the magazine ‘Newsweek Japan’ commented on the Hiroshima Mazda disability TikTok Video controversy saying it served as a reminder of how far Japanese corporate society is separated from global standards.

In response to the spread of a video of a Hiroshima Mazda employee in an electric wheelchair imitating a disabled person and laughing, which caused a firestorm, Hiroshima Mazda released a written statement on April 30 explaining that it never intended to make fun of the disabled person.