Disability News Japan Podcast: Osaka World Expo 2025 to Make Diversity a Theme
By Barrier Free Japan September 8 2023 OSAKA – Osaka in the Kansai Region of Japan will hold the ‘WorldContinue Reading
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Osaka Kansai World Expo 2025 Venue to Follow Universal Design Guidelines, have ‘Unity in Diversity’ Theme
Barrier Free Japan contacted the organisers of the ‘Osaka Kansai World Expo 2025’ asking about plans to make the venue, which is in Yumeshima Osaka, accessible to people with disabilities and about possible themes of thew exhibits that might be about people with disabilities. This was the response from the ‘Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition’:
Disability News Japan Podcast: Trial Starts Over 2019 KyoAni Arson Attack, Suspect Admits Charges
A man accused of carrying out a deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio four years ago admitted the charges in the indictment, in the first hearing of his trial at Kyoto District Court on Tuesday.
“I now think that I went too far” Suspect in 2019 KyoAni Arson Attack Admits Charges
A man accused of carrying out a deadly arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio four years ago admitted the charges in the indictment, in the first hearing of his trial at Kyoto District Court on Tuesday.
“I didn’t imagine that so many people would lose their lives, and I now think that I went too far,” Shinji Aoba, 45, said at the outset of the lay judge trial, admitting that he carried out the attack.
Trial Starts Over 2019 KyoAni Arson Attack
The focus is what Shinji Aoba, 45, accused of murder and attempted murder, will have to say about his motive for Japan’s worst arson incident since the 1989 start of the Heisei period in terms of the number of victims.
Disability News Japan Podcast: Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics Emblem Unveiled & 90 Year-Old Wheelchair-User Summits Mt. Fuji
Alpinist Yuichiro Miura, 90, reached the summit of Mount Fuji with a group of friends and family on Thursday, having used a wheelchair for the three-day ascent.
With the theme of the “circle” that connects people through the tournament, the design features a hand used in sign language and cherry blossom petals as motifs, and will be widely used in PR for the tournament.
Tokyo 2025 Summer Deaflympics Emblem Unveiled
With the theme of the “circle” that connects people through the tournament, the design features a hand used in sign language and cherry blossom petals as motifs, and will be widely used in PR for the tournament.
We need to talk about Accessibility in Nagoya…
I like Nagoya, I have been to Nagoya and as the adage goes, some of my best friends are from Nagoya. However, after reading recent news stories about Nagoya; it is difficult not to conclude that Nagoya ‘has issues’, as I believe the young folk like to say, when it comes to disabilities. As early as 2018 for example, there were concerns about Nagoya Castle possibly becoming inaccessible to people with disabilities. There are also more recent concerns about access to the subway.
Disability News Japan Podcast: Nagoya subway replaces platform timetables with QR codes to cut costs
All timetables have been removed from platforms on the Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakura-dori Line and replaced by QR codes that allow users to check the schedule on the web instead.
90-year-old Japanese alpinist summits Mount Fuji in wheelchair
Alpinist Yuichiro Miura, 90, reached the summit of Mount Fuji with a group of friends and family on Thursday, having used a wheelchair for the three-day ascent.
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