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50 Workers with Disabilities in Japan Lose Jobs After Nine Months, Despite 18-Month Contract [Podcast Episode]

The workers had been told by an employment support provider, which arranges workplaces for disabled people through a scheme known as the “disability employment business”, that they would be participating in an 18-month programme. Some were so shocked by the news that they became unable to continue working.

By Barrier Free Japan

October 14 2026

JAPAN – The workers had been told by an employment support provider, which arranges workplaces for disabled people through a scheme known as the “disability employment business”, that they would be participating in an 18-month programme. Some were so shocked by the news that they became unable to continue working.

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