IPC President, Andrew Parsons said: reaction:
“Postponing the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games as a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak is absolutely the right thing to do. The health and well-being of human life must always be our number one priority and staging a sport event of any kind during this pandemic is simply not possible.”
On Thursday March 19th, Eiko Kimura, a representative of the House of Councillors and a member of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, who has cerebral palsy, was excluded from a cross-party committee meeting about the novel coronavirus threat.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has begun sharing information about COVID-19 and the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Sagamihara City Information Disclosure Division Manager Kazuaki Yamaguchi said, “It was a serious incident, and we believe that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that it can be verified in the future and that such incidents will never occur again.”
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has compiled support measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection in facilities for persons with disabilities.
Kamogawa City in Chiba prefecture has begun distributing 15,000 masks stored in the city to prevent the elderly and disabled from getting the new coronavirus. It targets medical institutions and nursing & disability facilities in the city.
The Yokohama District Court has sentenced Satoshi Uematsu (30) to death for killing 19 residents and injuring 26 others at a care home in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture in July 2016.
On March 16, 2020, the judgment on the Sagamihara Disability Killing Case will be given. It was a turbulent trial to the end, with two judges resigning after its conclusion. The defendant Uematsu has stated that he will not appeal the death sentence, so the sentence may be fixed and the Sagamihara case may be ended.
Osaka District Court sentenced a Japanese couple to 13 years in prison on Thursday for confining their eldest daughter, who had schizophrenia, for over 10 years and letting her freeze to death.
Daisuke Sugimoto, a representative of the company ‘D&I’ – Diversity and Inclusion’ is taking measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in light of the growing number of companies recommending telecommuting and teleworking due to the spread of the new coronavirus, and will provide D&I’s service for people with disabilities through the ‘Enkaku Cloud’, free of charge from March 11, 2020 to April 30, 2020.
Barrier Free Japan