Enthusiasm for Tokyo Games viewed by some as harassment
With the Tokyo Olympics attracting a lot of public attention in Japan, some people who are not interested in the Games, or sports in general, are feeling uncomfortable or even harassed.
Category: Disability
Japan’s Paralympian “Ironman”, Tomoya Ito, will compete using a wheelchair developed using ‘Formula One’ technology
Tomoya Ito, a Paralympic athlete who will represent Japan in para athletics, also known as track and field, will use a new racing wheelchair incorporating Formula One technology.
Sagamihara killer allegedly not the only one who said “I hope there are no disabled people” at care home
Uematsu wasn’t the only one who said, “I hope there are no disabled people,” as some senior staff members clearly said, “The fact that they are kept alive is a waste of blood [sic] tax.”
Sagamihara Stabbings killer repeatedly called ‘foolish’ at care home after co-workers discovered his tattoo
According to a colleagues who knew Uematsu well, he was called ‘foolish Uematsu’ and was talked about behind his back in the workplace. One of them said, ‘If you’re made fun of so much at work, you’re bound to go crazy.”
Five years after Sagamihara Stabbings, accounts emerge of killer’s apparently diligent behaviour as care worker
According to a recently published article, Uematsu very diligently helped a male resident having an epileptic seizure in a bath in March 2015.
Five Year Anniversary of the Sagamihara Stabbings
July 26th 2021 marks the five year anniversary of what is now often referred to as the ‘Sagamihara Stabbings’, when in the early hours of July 26th 2016, Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee of the ‘Tsukui Yamayuri En’ or ‘Tsukui Lily Garden’ care home for people with disabilites, killed 19 residents with disabilites and injured at least 26 others.
The steps at JR Ochanomizu station are “scary”, say visually impaired people upon inspecting the platform
Members of the All Japan Council for the Visually Impaired, a group of visually impaired people, have inspected the dangers of JR Ochanomizu Station (Chiyoda Ward) and Yoyogi Station (Shibuya Ward), both of which have steps on the platform. At Ochanomizu Station, which does not have a platform door, they believe that people could fall off the platform.
Father of a child with a disability condemns sacked composer for the Tokyo 2020 Games who abused disabled children
“As a parent, I have no words to describe what my child has been through at school. What kind of nerve is it to make fun of that as an adult? It’s a dark joke that a song by someone like this should be played at the Paralympics. It could be traumatic. Even if it happened 27 years ago, it’s not acceptable.”
Disability News Japan Episode 72: ‘Fuji Rock’ gives high billing to musician who resigned from Tokyo 2020 for assaulting disabled children
Keigo ‘Cornelius’ Oyamada, who confessed and apologized for forcing his classmates who had disabilities to eat their own faeces and masturbate in public, will play on the ‘Green stage’ on Saturday 21st August at the popular music festival.
Fuji Rock festival gives high billing to musician who confessed to assaulting disabled children
Keigo ‘Cornelius’ Oyamada, who confessed and apologized for forcing his classmates who had disabilities to eat their own faeces and masturbate in public, will play on the ‘Green stage’ on Saturday 21st August at the popular music festival.
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