Women in Nagoya form group to promote and communicate in sign language
“Women with children in Nagoya have new opportunities to converse using sign language, after the creation of a new social group.”
Category: Disability
Employment of Disabled People in Japan at 14 Year Record High
“According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare persons with disabilities working at private companies with 50 or more employees reached 497,795 (4.5% increase from the previous year) as of June 1 of this year (2017), the highest level for 14 consecutive years . On the other hand, about 30% of the subjects surveyed did not employ one person.”
Suspended sentences for Utsunomiya care home workers found guilty of assaulting disabled resident
“Utsunomiya District Court – In a trial against former employees of a facility accused of injuries and other charges, including assaulting a man with intellectual disability at facility for the disabled in Utsunomiya City it was said, “The crime was done unilaterally to the victim of the nonresistance,” and those convicted were given a suspended sentence.”
Sagamihara Incident: “Many people agreed with the perpetrator on the net, it was painful”
From Kyarikonenyūsu (in Japanese) December 7th 2017 The Disabled Personnel Research Institute announced the results of December 6, of theContinue Reading
Miyagi woman to sue Japanese government over forced sterilization under now-defunct eugenics law
“SENDAI – A woman in her 60s will sue the government for being forced to undergo sterilization on the grounds of her intellectual disability, according to informed sources.”
Japan’s first public sign language phones installed at Haneda airport
Kyodo News & The Japan Times December 4th 2017 The nation’s first public phones allowing communication via sign language wereContinue Reading
Japan based Netizens react negatively to the ‘standing only on the escalator’ campaign to help the elderly and disabled
In early December 2017, Rocketnews24 reported about a campaign aimed to help the elderly and disabled. Like many major cities,Continue Reading
Utsunomiya Care Home: Two former employees to be sentenced for assaulting resident
“In a trial against two former employees of a facility charged injuring a resident, the prosecution said, “In a trial against a man who was charged with injuries and the like, It is a one-sided crime against a nonresistant person with disabilities. He was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment and two years imprisonment.”
Recent Deaths of Disabled People in Japan
According to the Asahi Shimbun, A man who was in his 50’s, was living in a support facility for theContinue Reading
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