“The boardinghouse, founded in September 2010, aims to improve the quality of life of seriously ill people, especially children with severe disabilities, by providing support to them and their families.”
“As the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be held in two years, in a survey of the hotels and inns in Chiba prefecture was conducted and shows a negative attitude towards disabled people, with 30% places surveyed of the facility unsure how to accommodate disabled people.”
“40% said they did not know about raising the employment rate. 48% accounted for “not knowing” about the addition of mentally disabled persons to the subjects. Among the companies that do not know the expansion of the target, 71% were not hiring people with disabilities.”
“As a disabled foreigner living in Japan, I have experienced both sides of this paradox. It may seem bleak, but I do not find it so. And yet for myself, a British citizen with cerebral palsy in Japan, it is the liberating power of being a foreigner here that leaves the deepest impression on me.”
“Kazuhiro Miwa was arrested on the grounds that on Tuesday December 19th 2017 at around 8:30am that Miwa used a residents cash card to withdraw cash of 280,000 yen without the residents permission from an ATM at Japan Railway station.”
“OSAKA – A couple detained after the death of their 33-year-old daughter were served with fresh arrest warrants Tuesday for allegedly confining her for at least 15 years before she froze to death.”
“Watching The Kohaku is kind of a ritual. This year however, there was something especially worthy of note: it included a song by the famous singer Ken Hirai accompanied by the ballet dancer Koichi Omae who uses a prosthetic limb.”
“It is New Years Eve in the average family household in Japan, at about a quarter past seven in the evening. This can mean only one thing: it’s time for the Kohaku!”
“The number of people cited for abusing disabled people fell by three from the previous year to 2,520 in fiscal 2016, but cases of mistreatment at care facilities grew to a record of 401, a welfare ministry survey says.”
“The interviewer is Kanebumi Kanbe of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting and the interviewee is Satoshi Uematsu. It will broadcast on TBS radio on December 29th and on January 3rd 2018 in some regions:”
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