“A total of 109 hearing-impaired people were forced to undergo 127 cases of sterilization operations or abortions under a postwar eugenics law, according to an ongoing investigation by the Japanese Federation of the Deaf (JFD).”
“Three people, allegedly affiliated with the Sumiyosh-kai crime group were arrested for forcing a hearing impaired hearing woman to write a document apologizing for an offense she did not commit.”
“While there is no Paralympic category for athletes solely with hearing impairments, the deaf community is not just watching the momentum build from the sidelines, and the Japanese Federation of the Deaf has launched a campaign to bring the Deaflympics — Olympic Games for the deaf — to Japan for the first time.”
“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…”
“All Japan Deaf Federation (headquarters / Tokyo) surveyed hearing-impaired people nationwide, and 70 people answered that they were forced to have sterilization surgery and have abortions. The Federation held a press conference in Osaka on the 9th June.”
“I’d like you to listen carefully to the stakeholders’ story that discriminatory sterilization has been performed”
Written with extracts from the Nishi Nippon Shimbun June 1st 2018 Kazumi Shishido (81), a hearing-impaired person living in theContinue Reading
