A part-time staff member at a support facility for people with disabilities in Shibukawa City, Gunma Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of injury after he pushed a man who was staying at the facility and injured him.
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When railway station staff help passengers with disabilities get on and off trains, they announce their locations. But that can aid assailants in pinpointing the locations of vulnerable people they can target.
Shimizu Corp., a major construction company based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, is offering its clients paintings created by three disabled artists as commemorative gifts when a new project is completed.
A homeroom teacher at a municipal elementary school here has been replaced for bullying a student he thought had a developmental disability, sources close to the city education board have told the Mainichi Shimbun.
Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co. and U.S. biopharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. said Wednesday an Alzheimer’s drug they are jointly developing has been found effective in slowing the deterioration of symptoms in a late-stage clinical trial.
A Ukrainian in a wheelchair who fled the Russian invasion has injected some happiness into her life in Japan with dancing, and is dreaming of doing the same in her home country, too.
The Japanese government is slated to face three new damages lawsuits over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law.
A book entitled ‘How to Support Children with Autism’, published in Japan compares talking to people with autism to talking to foreigners.
A hearing-impaired couple in their 70s from Nagoya City will sue the government for a total of approximately 30 million yen, claiming that they were sterilized under the former Eugenic Protection Law
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