Category: Disability

Disability

Hearings begin regarding Hokkaido welfare facilities where sterilization procedures for disabled persons were allegedly “not forced”

On December 19, the Hokkaido prefectural government began interviewing facility staff regarding the issue of a group home ran by the ‘Asunaro Welfare Association’ social welfare corporation in the town of Esashi, Hokkaido, that had requested sterilization for intellectually disabled couples.

Disability Independent Living Japan

Japan revises law to support people with disabilities to live and work alone, critics concerned about “increasing unnecessary hospitalizations”

The law changes the consent system for “medical protection hospitalization”, a form of forced hospitalization, for persons with mental disabilities. It has been criticized as increasing unnecessary hospitalizations. The majority of what the law stipulates will come into effect in April 2024.

Disability Japan Politics

LDP minister to apologize over derogatory remarks made about LGBT and people with disabilities

At the Budget Committee meeting, Daisuke Tenbata, an Upper House member of the opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, said Mio Sugita’s comments reflect a bygone era of a totalitarian government that sought to ostracize people with disabilities and homosexuals as a worthless existence in society. Tenbata is disabled and uses a wheelchair.