Japan has provided Ukraine with rehabilitation equipment and welfare vehicles to support senior citizens and people with disabilities. The items will be delivered to 11 facilities in the Kyiv region through the Japan International Cooperation Agency. In the Kyiv region, the number of people with disabilities has risen by 14,000 since the invasion began.
“Our older daughter, a junior high school student, has a severe intellectual disability. She is unable to take care of herself, so I have to help her with everything, including using the bathroom and bathing. She is very particular about things and often gets angry suddenly or screams nonstop for a long time. I don’t know when it happened, but I started not thinking about her as precious to me. I sometimes even wish she would go away. My son, who is in high school, and my younger daughter, an elementary school student, have no disabilities, and they’re so adorable.” [From Japan News, ‘Dear Troubleshooter’]
Barrier Free Japan feels a little bit under the weather, but here is a digest of recent news stories. The Osaka High Court allowed a hearing impaired person to use Speech-to-Text technology, Carers will receive wage hikes and COVID cases are increasing.
The Japanese government will help raise wages for care workers to alleviate labor shortages in the sector, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Takamaro Fukuoka said in a recent interview.
Staff shortages at care facilities are “very serious,” Fukuoka said. He then noted that “the pay growth rate in the sector is said to be low”
The suspect (71) arrested on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse, is a driver for a disability support facility in Koganei City, Tokyo, who is suspected of sexually assaulting a female user in her 20s on the bus he was driving in July this year.
A total of 38 cases suspected to be abuse were confirmed going back about 10 years, with 11 users abused and nine staff members abusing them, and the committee pointed out that “abuse had become the norm.” According to the report, the abuse continued from around 2014 until last year, and included the following acts: hitting users on the head and ankles with a mallet in what was called “Hammer Chance”; forcing users to drink large amounts of fluids in what was called the “Sakazuki Challenge”; and making users run down the hallways and do squats under the pretext of dieting and exercise.
The businesses that received administrative action from Kyoto City are Kyoto Prefecture Aozora-kai and Link Natural Japan, both of which are located in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City.
A total of 38 cases suspected to be abuse were confirmed going back about 10 years, with 11 users abused and nine staff members abusing them, and the committee pointed out that “abuse had become the norm.” According to the report, the abuse continued from around 2014 until last year, and included the following acts: hitting users on the head and ankles with a mallet in what was called “Hammer Chance”; forcing users to drink large amounts of fluids in what was called the “Sakazuki Challenge”; and making users run down the hallways and do squats under the pretext of dieting and exercise.
The suspect had apparently been providing personal care for her 85-year-old husband Shori. She reportedly admitted to the charge by telling police, “There is no mistake (that I did it). I was tired of looking after him.”
Nearly 20 pct of young people in Japan whose parents have been killed or left permanently disabled in traffic accidents are caregivers of family members, a recent survey by an association for children of traffic accident victims showed.
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