Sao Ichikawa, the winner of the Akutagawa Prize, is a 43-year-old resident of Kanagawa Prefecture.
She was diagnosed with congenital myopathy, a muscle disease, one of the most intractable diseases, when she was 10 years old, began using a ventilator at the age of 14, uses an electric wheelchair for transportation, and writes using a tablet device.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 54,150 new cases were found at some 5,000 regularly monitored hospitals across the nation.
“I wrote this with the mind that there are not many authors (with severe disabilities) like me,” Ichikawa, who uses a ventilator and electric wheelchair, said in a press conference.
Jiji Press Ltd. and seven partners on Wednesday signed a declaration of cooperation to prevent social isolation for elderly and other people with hearing loss.
The partners will disseminate information on cases where new technologies, such as cartilage conduction earphones, are in practical use, aiming to promote support for those people.
Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, attended the Doremifa Dance Concert in Tokyo on Monday 17th July.
This was the fourth time that Kako attended the event, which was organized by a Tokyo-based non-profit organization dedicated to the welfare of people with disabilities, inviting people with disabilities and their families as spectators.
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.
The accused underwent six months of psychiatric examinations before prosecutors decided in December 2020 that he could be held criminally responsible. A separate evaluation requested by Aoba’s lawyers has also been concluded.
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.
Tokito Oda, the 17 year old top seed from Japan won 6-4 6-2 to claim his second major title after winning last month’s French Open, defeating Great Britain’s Alfie Hewett and securing victory in one hour and 25 minutes.
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.
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