Japan’s NHK drama depicts a wheelchair user para-athlete who turns in to superhero in ‘High Speed Parahero Gandeen’
The NHK drama ‘Super Speed Para Hero Gundeen’ depicts a wheelchair using para athlete who is also a superhero.
Author: Michael Gillan Peckitt
UK & CP born, living in Japan, blogging about disability
Touring ‘Barrier Free’ Tokyo with Japanese Paralympian Kazumi Nakayama
Having a guided a tour around Shibuya Ward, Tokyo in mid-November 2017, with the athlete Kazumi Nakayama, a Track and Field Paralympian at the Rio 2016 Games – was an instructive experience.
After diagnosed with rare spinal cord Illness, former AKB48 Japan Idol highlights difficulties in finding employment with a disability in Japan
In Japan, about 940,000 patients with incurable diseases are eligible for public medical subsidies, and many of them are facing employment challenges. Some of them are reluctant to tell co-workers that they get tired easily over worries about being fired or being thought of as lazy.
Unlicensed childcare facilities in Tokyo may be in violation of Japan’s Anti Disability Discrimination Laws
The Mainichi Shimbun has learned that the rules of an unlicensed childcare facility in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward that offers sports education include a statement to the effect that children with developmental disabilities may be asked to leave the facility if they have trouble living at the school. This may be in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act, which prohibits discriminatory treatment of people with disabilities.
IPC names 6 athletes to Tokyo Paralympic refugee team
According to the International Paralympic Committee, about 12 million of the over 82 million forcibly displaced people around the world have some degree of disability.
Former employee at Hyogo facility for the disabled sentenced to prison over abusing resident on a daily basis
The Amagasaki Branch of the Kobe District Court has sentenced a former employee of a facility for the disabled in Nishinomiya City to two years and four months in prison on charges of assault and battery for abusing a resident.
Barrier Free Japan will receive the Pfizer vaccine in July in Japan!
Apparently ‘bumped up the list’ a bit due to underlying conditions, Disability News Japan will get a Pfizer vaccine in July in Japan!
Platform edges raised on JR Tokai bullet train stations to improve wheelchair access
The edge of the platform has been raised to reduce the gap between the platform and the carriage to about three centimetres, and the sides of the platform have been fitted with rubber parts to narrow the gap between the platform and the carriage so that wheelchair tyres cannot get stuck.
Japan’s Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology to allow pre-implantation testing to detect diseases that may cause death “before adulthood in principle”
In a report compiled in May, the society had indicated a plan to allow preimplantation testing to be performed to detect diseases that may cause death “before adulthood in principle.” By using the expression “in principle,” the society aims to leave open the possibility of diseases that occur during adulthood being covered by the testing, while stopping short of listing specific disease names.
After a hearing-impaired person was refused care, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare requests local gov’ts use sign language during pandemic
After a hearing-impaired person infected with the new corona virus was refused the use of accommodation facilities because it was difficult to communicate by telephone, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has issued a notice to local governments asking them to introduce remote sign language interpretation and written communication so that people with hearing disabilities infected with the new coronavirus can use facilities.
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