Mayor silent on Nagoya Castle’s accessibility due to lack of “concrete consultation”
“Since I have not yet received concrete consultation (such as application from the city), I will refrain from replying as to whether or not”.
Category: Disability
Almost two years after the Sagamihara stabbings, Kanagawa attempts to employ more disabled people
“The Kanagawa prefectural government announced on June 1st that it will extend the target for intellectual and mentally handicapped persons from the current fiscal year on staff recruitment exams that have been implemented for people with disabilities. The prefecture will take the initiative and take action to accept disabled people in response to the incident that occurred at welfare facility for intellectually disabled people in the Sagamihara city based “Tsukui Yamayuri-en” in 2016 that resulted in the deaths of at least 19 of its disabled residents.”
Health ministry official strongly questioned eugenics law 23 years before revision
“The late official, Shunichi Kakurai, who headed the then Health and Welfare Ministry’s public health bureau, also asserted that the law’s provision that allowed forced sterilization operations as “necessary for public good” was “very problematic.” ”
Kumamoto woman had “Infertility surgery without having a disability”
“A woman in Kumamoto city is seeking damages and has given notice of her intention to file a complaint in the Kumamoto district court; having undergone surgery without having a disorder.”
Forced Sterilization: “I do not know what was done”
“I’d like you to listen carefully to the stakeholders’ story that discriminatory sterilization has been performed”
A hearing impaired person protests Japan’s Eugenic Protection Law
Written with extracts from the Nishi Nippon Shimbun June 1st 2018 Kazumi Shishido (81), a hearing-impaired person living in theContinue Reading
914 forced sterilization disabled victims newly identified in Japan
“More than 900 victims of forced sterilizations have been newly identified in 11 prefectures under the postwar Eugenic Protection Law, according to the latest Asahi Shimbun survey.
The additional records and documents found between mid-May and mid-March list 914 names of men and women in 11 prefectures, bringing the total to 4,773 in 29 prefectures.”
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Disabled people in Sendai hold protest demonstrations over forced sterilization
“Participants came from the Hokkaido area right down to Okinawa Prefecture with banners reading “Where is the country’s apologies to victims of forced sterilization surgery!” While raising banners with the text “I want to decide whether to give birth or not myself”, they marched for about 1 hour around Miyagi prefectural office and downtown area.”
Japanese TV reports disabled people protesting in Sendai over forced sterilization May 30th 2018 (video)
“Disabled people in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan held a protest on Wednesday 30th May 2018 over forced sterilization, at least 150 attended.”
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