“The “safety color” of the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) used for signs to prevent accident prevention and emergency evacuation has been revised for the first time in 13 years.”
“A director of a ‘work transfer transition support office ‘that conducts vocational training for persons with disabilities in Kurume city in Fukuoka Prefecture after it was found he acted indecently against female clients of the facility at the end of last year, committing actions from breach of the Comprehensive Support Law for Persons with Disabilities.”
“According to the municipal government, three women with intellectual disabilities were residing at the home. In March 2016, the operator’s president Chikako Muroi allegedly forced a woman in her 20s to wear a card saying ‘I’m a liar’ at all times”
“We stood up so that we can realize a society without discrimination against people with disabilities”
“ “We have to change this kind of thinking…Disabled people are human beings” “
“An ‘after school’ service operated by the Kanegasaki Town Social Welfare Council opened the ceremony on site on the 18th. It is a facility for disabled children in Oshu, Kitakami city for use after school, to learn social training and creative activities to achieve independence. It will open from 1st May 2018.”
“Nearly half of Tokyo’s residents can’t name a single Paralympian, and international sporting officials are worried about the capital’s readiness to accommodate athletes.“
“Discriminating against people with visual disabilities because of their means of walking constitutes a human-rights issue. I hope to see a society friendly to the disabled.”
“A report released last month by the Study Group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare over the idea of the National Institute for Severe Intellectual Disabled People Nozomi’s Garden (Takasaki City, Gumma Prefecture) said, “Roles focusing on business to be implemented as a nation “We also request privatization to be considered,””
“Maki said, “It is indispensable to grasp the actual situation as to what kind of support is to be considered, I would like the administration to turn more attention to the suffering of disabled people who continue to have aftereffects” ”
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