Category: Disability

Art Disability Japan Writing

Sao Ichikawa, Woman with Congenital Myopathy Wins Japan’s Akutagawa Prize

The protagonist of the story is a woman with the same serious disability as Ichikawa.

She describes her life in which she is forced to rely on medical equipment such as a ventilator and aspirator to aspirate her lungs, while at the same time humorously expressing her bitter sarcasm toward the lives of normal people.

The work is full of Ichikawa’s powerful words as a person with severe disabilities.

Abuse Care Disability Japan

Fuchu City Care Home Abuse: Staff Members also Victimized, Called ‘Crazy’

It was not only the users of the care home whom were victimized. Staff members were also subjected to assault, verbal abuse, and power harassment. One staff member was abused and told that he was “incompetent” and “crazy,” and that he should go to a hospital to get checked out. Another employee had documents thrown at him and was punched in the face. Some resigned because they could no longer stand the harassment.

Abuse Care Disability Japan

Fuchu City Care Home Abuse: Whistleblowers and Reports to the Government Ignored for Seven Years

The former vice president of a social welfare corporation in Fuchu City, Tokyo, had repeatedly abused mentally disabled patients for about 10 years. Kyodo News obtained an investigation report compiled by the corporation’s third-party committee. Although there have been a total of more than a dozen whistle-blowing and reports to the government, Fuchu City failed to recognize the abuse for about seven years.

Disability Japan My Number Welfare

2,336 People with Intellectual Disabilities’ Data in Miyazaki Linked to Wrong ‘My Number’ Information

The Miyazaki prefectural government in southwestern Japan said Wednesday that it has found 2,336 cases in which information on certificates issued to people with intellectual disabilities was linked to other people’s My Number personal identification numbers. Information such as the affected people’s degrees of disability and certificate numbers could be viewed on the Mynaportal online platform for My Number cardholders between October last year and Saturday.

Disability Hospitals Japan

Flooded Hospital in Fukuoka Pref Working to Resume Operations

As the hospital became unable to provide dialysis and other medical care, patients were temporarily transferred to a nearby hospital.

With electricity and water supplies remaining unavailable as of Tuesday, Tanushimaru Central Hospital is operating medical equipment using an emergency power system. On Tuesday, all hospital staff and volunteers worked to remove the floodwater and mud.