When railway station staff help passengers with disabilities get on and off trains, they announce their locations. But that can aid assailants in pinpointing the locations of vulnerable people they can target.
Shimizu Corp., a major construction company based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, is offering its clients paintings created by three disabled artists as commemorative gifts when a new project is completed.
A homeroom teacher at a municipal elementary school here has been replaced for bullying a student he thought had a developmental disability, sources close to the city education board have told the Mainichi Shimbun.
Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co. and U.S. biopharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. said Wednesday an Alzheimer’s drug they are jointly developing has been found effective in slowing the deterioration of symptoms in a late-stage clinical trial.
The Japanese government is slated to face three new damages lawsuits over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law.
A book entitled ‘How to Support Children with Autism’, published in Japan compares talking to people with autism to talking to foreigners.
A hearing-impaired couple in their 70s from Nagoya City will sue the government for a total of approximately 30 million yen, claiming that they were sterilized under the former Eugenic Protection Law
The Osaka District Court on Thursday dismissed a damages lawsuit filed against the government by a couple with disabilities over forced sterilization conducted under the now-defunct eugenic protection law.The ruling came even after Osaka and Tokyo high courts ordered the government to pay damages in similar suits on forced sterilization in February and March, respectively.
The estimated number of people aged 65 or older in Japan stood at a record high of 36.27 million as of Thursday, rising by 60,000 from a year before and accounting for 29.1 pct of the nation’s total population, also the highest ever, the internal affairs ministry said.
A U.N. Committee dealing with the rights of people with disabilities in Japan, on Friday 9th September, expressed its concerns that the involvement people with disabilities was “insufficient” when legislation was passed and public policy was being formed and set.
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