Olympics: Paralympic snowboard champ Gurimu Narita eyes canoe for 2020
“Japan’s Gurimu Narita, the men’s Pyeongchang Paralympic snowboarding banked slalom champion, is looking to compete in canoe at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.”
Author: Michael Gillan Peckitt
UK & CP born, living in Japan, blogging about disability
The Sagamihara stabbings accused’s ‘Manga’ (Part 2)
“On July 20th, a book including letters and drawings written by the accused in the Sagamihara massacre…”
Sagamihara massacre accused killed disabled people because ‘He wanted to feel his life was meaningful’
From an NHK 9pm News report July 26th 2018
150 people in Kobe, Japan mark the two year anniversary of the Sagamihara killings with a protest
“The group marched through the Kobe Motomachi shopping street, often chanting phrases such as ‘disabled people are not unhappy’, possibly a reference to the accused in the Sagamihara killings, Satoshi Uematsu asserting that ‘disabled people can only cause misery.’”
JR East launches escalator safety campaign after logging 180 accidents in fiscal 2017
“Dangerous incidents included a drunken passenger who tripped, a person being hit by a falling suitcase and someone’s clothing getting stuck in the escalator.”
Critics: Book on killer of disabled people sends wrong message
““Akerareta Pandora no Hako” (Pandora’s box opened) was published by Tsukuru Publishing Co. ahead of the second anniversary of the attack at a facility for disabled people in Kanagawa Prefecture.”
Two years after Sagamihara, NHK documentaries ask ‘What is co-existence with the disabled?’
“NHK aired two documentaries on Saturday 21st July 2018, one on NHK G, it’s main channel at 9pm about Sagamihara, and one on its documentary channel, NHK E at 11pm about forced sterilization.”
Kawasaki city boy denied kindergarten place due to disability
“Kazuki Kagasaki (6) and his parents want Kazuki; who has a disability, to go to a school in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture, but found it was illegal to designate the school as a ‘special support school’, a status that would allow Kazuki to attend.”
Ministry to urge improvement of airport accessibility ahead of Games
“The tourism ministry will step up efforts to make the nation’s airports more accessible for disabled people ahead of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been learned.”
Japan’s Environment Ministry to review color-coded ‘Heat index map, helping those with vision disorders
Japan Environment Ministry “… found that the indication of the “heat index” color-coded on the map was difficult to distinguish for people with color vision disorders.”
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