Why it is important for Japan to hire disabled people
“Do these people really understand why hiring people with disabilities is important to society?”
Category: Discrimination
Health ministry confirms names of 3,033 forced sterilization victims
“[S]ome 16,500 people were forcibly sterilized in this way. However, the ministry was able to find only 6,066 applications to conduct the procedure, now considered inhumane, of which 5,676 were approved. Of these, records of 4,987 people receiving these surgeries have been found, though only 3,033 of their names could be confirmed.”
Half of ‘disabled’ workers at central government institutions were miscounted: labor minister
“Half of workers hired by central government institutions based on a measure to promote the employment of people with disabilities did not qualify under guidelines for the measure as of June 1 last year, the government announced Tuesday. 28th August.”
Takarazuka City Board of Education member apologizes for remarks about disabled girl
“Takarazuka City Board of Education said on Monday that a male (72), who was a board of education, attending public elementary schools in the city, said something to a mother of a fourth-graded girl (9) suffering from incurable diseases ” that the city’s board of education recognized the remark as “discrimination”. The man submitted his resignation last month and it was accepted on the 26th.”
Japanese Government’s Ministries & agencies alleged to have misrepresented disability employment rates
“Ministries and agencies are believed to have misrepresented the rates by including in their head counts personnel with relatively mild disabilities who do not carry disability certificates. Officials at the land and internal affairs ministries have said that people without the disability certificates may have been included in the calculations.”
Intellectually disabled woman, forced to wear placards saying ‘I am a liar’ sues care home
“We have filed a lawsuit to inform the fact that people with disabilities are being oppressed, we want to reveal the essence and background of the problem at the trial so that the same things will not be repeated.”
150 people in Kobe, Japan mark the two year anniversary of the Sagamihara killings with a protest
“The group marched through the Kobe Motomachi shopping street, often chanting phrases such as ‘disabled people are not unhappy’, possibly a reference to the accused in the Sagamihara killings, Satoshi Uematsu asserting that ‘disabled people can only cause misery.’”
Kawasaki city boy denied kindergarten place due to disability
“Kazuki Kagasaki (6) and his parents want Kazuki; who has a disability, to go to a school in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture, but found it was illegal to designate the school as a ‘special support school’, a status that would allow Kazuki to attend.”
Japanese Government must do more to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities
“According to the summary of the Cabinet Office as of April 17, the number of municipalities that formulated response procedures was 64.3%, while the number of councils was only 41.4%.”
Parents to file suit after disabled son’s entry to regular school rejected
“The lawsuit will be the first of its kind after the law on the elimination of disability discrimination took effect in 2016, according to the lawyers.”
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