“At an evacuation center in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, 69-year-old Michiko Wakisaka, whose home was hit by a landslide, said she moved from another evacuation center after finding it only had squat-style toilets she cannot use due to disability.”
“The Shizuoka association of the deaf has received an apology from the board of education of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, after a lodging facility owned by the education board refused in January a request to accommodate a group of about 100 hearing-impaired persons on the grounds that their safety could not be guaranteed…”
“n a new approach to helping children with developmental disabilities, a doctor who is also a Go enthusiast has been using the strategy game to augment his efforts.”
“The lawsuit will be the first of its kind after the law on the elimination of disability discrimination took effect in 2016, according to the lawyers.”
“The number of employees in Japan who were officially recognized as suffering from work-caused depression and other mental disorders exceeded 500 for the first time ever in fiscal 2017, the labor ministry said Friday.”
“Intellectually impaired people aiming to acquire professional techniques to make traditional crafts, such as “Nishijin-ori” textiles and “wa rosoku” Japanese candles, are expected to be new bearers of the long-established industrial art of Kyoto, which has a 1,200-year history.”
“In March this year, Tsutomu Tanaka, 76, of Hyogo Prefecture, was charged with killing his eldest son, who had a mental disorder, at his home. On July 7th the Kobe District Court Himeji branch with Miyako Fujiwara Presiding Judge sentenced to Tanaka to four years in prison (eight years maximum imprisonment prison sentence).”
” “The library work cannot be done by the blind people alone, as the braille books must be produce for us by people who can see and, therefore I would earnestly ask for the cooperation and assistance of all,” Homma said.”
“I wanted to create a place where people could hold dialogues in an easy manner, regardless of their position or job title”
“We want to separate people from the perpetrators so as to protect the users.”
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