Category: Care

Fourteen staff members at the Gifu Prefectural Hana-no-Kien disability support facility in Toki City have been found to have committed 40 instances of abuse against 18 residents, including forcefully hitting their heads and kicking them during medication administration. The abuse, which occurred between July and October 2024, came to light after one employee was arrested for assaulting a male resident. In response, the Gifu Prefectural Government has suspended the facility’s intake of new residents for three months starting in September 2025 and is considering further disciplinary action against 12 of the involved staff.

The Mainichi Shimbun has obtained images from a video showing residents at a facility for people with disabilities in Goshogawara city , Aomori being slapped across the face. In another image, a resident is being struck.

On July 2nd, Goshogawara city conducted a second investigation following the one in June, following suspicions that a disability support facility in Goshogawara City, Aomori Prefecture, had physically abused residents. The city conducted an investigation on June 26, including interviewing those involved with the facility, but was unable to identify the suspected abuser or the resident who was abused, so city officials visited the facility on the 2nd and conducted a re-investigation. The facility has 39 residents from within and outside the prefecture, and about 50 staff members. In response to an interview by Aomori Television on July 1st, the facility said it was “confirming the facts.”