Author: Michael Gillan Peckitt

UK & CP born, living in Japan, blogging about disability
Abuse Crime Disability Japan Sexual abuse

Fukuoka man, 73, arrested for obscenity after allegedly touching developmentally disabled high school girl

The man is suspected of touching her body from the top of her clothes when a high school girl (16) was in a state of confusion at around 4 pm on May 31 in an apartment in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. She denies the charges, saying “she doesn’t remember.” The high school girl has a developmental disability and she had little awareness of what she was doing.

Coronavirus COVID-19 Disability Japan

Coronavirus cluster confirmed at a facility for children with disabilities in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, five people infected

All those who are infected live in Shimonoseki City, and four of them are patients and staff of a day-care centre for disabled children, including one person who had already been infected, five people were confirmed to have been infected at the facility, and the city has confirmed the outbreak as a cluster.

Coronavirus COVID-19 Disability Japan Nursing Care

COVID-19 cluster at Shizuoka nursing home after all residents, staff got 1st vaccine shots, government apologizes for “erroneous explanation” for cluster

Regarding the infections, the Shizuoka Municipal Government on June 16 apologized for and withdrew comments it had made the previous day that weakened immune systems after inoculations were responsible for the coronavirus cluster at the nursing home.

Crime Disability Japan Sexual abuse

Osaka District Public Prosecutor’s Office to conduct a “representative hearing” into sexual offences against people with intellectual disabilities, with a hope to relieve “mental burden”

The Osaka District Public Prosecutor’s Office is collaborating with the Osaka Prefectural Police Department. The focus concerns victims of sex crimes with intellectual, and a senior prosecutor said, “The characteristics and degree of disability vary from person to person. We are carefully considering what method is appropriate.”