“I strangled my son,” father of disabled son admits at Nagoya District Court
“According to officials, the eldest son had a disability, and the defendant stated at the investigation stage that he “worried about his son’s future”.”
Category: Intellectual disabilities
Oita District Court rejects damages claim after apartment manager died after altercation with disabled resident
“On August 22nd, the Oita District Court ruled in a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs, were seeking damages totaling approximately 53.64 million yen. The case concerned an incident that occurred in 2014, when an unemployed man with an intellectual disability aged 42 and the caretaker managing the apartment where he lived, who was aged 62, both died following an altercation.”
Hyogo Bar Association: DNA collection from intellectually disabled woman “illegal with no valid consent”
“The police station requested the woman voluntarily come to the station in May, and the woman visited the station with her mother. The clerk collected DNA from the woman’s mouth. The station claims that the collection was made with written consent. On the other hand, the woman said that she “did not agree” and that her mother did not approve. The station sent a document to the woman for allegedly damaging the property.”
Undisclosed settlement reached at Nagoya High Court over death of a disabled man
“The corporation that operates the facility offered a payment of 18 million yen, but the bereaved family said, “..there is a difference in the amount of compensation between the healthy person and the disabled person…I am against it,” and was seeking compensation of more than 72 million yen, the same amount as a healthy person.”
Man arrested for kidnapping girl with intellectual disability
“Kanagawa prefectural police said Thursday they have arrested a 29-year-old man of no fixed occupation on suspicion of kidnapping a 15-year-old intellectually disabled girl from a shopping mall.”
Japan’s Local Govts Increasing Disabled Job Applicants to include those with mental or intellectual disabilities
“An increasing number of prefectural governments and ordinance-designated major cities in Japan are expanding the scope of disabled people qualified to take exams for regular jobs at the public-sector offices to include those with mental or intellectual disabilities. Previously, the job exams had been available to people with physical disabilities.”
To increase understanding of autism, a Hyogo Prefecture NPO holds ‘simulation’ workshops
“To deepen an understanding about the “lack of understanding” that people with autism and other intellectual disabilities experience in their daily lives, the NPO ‘Nuturing Society Connecting Hands in Sanda City’, an NPO that holds workshops in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture (amongst other places), for disabled people and their families has been formed. “
“Supporting All Together”: a job placement for students with developmental disorders starts in Kansai
“An initiative to support students who can not find employment easily due to developmental disorders in cooperation with universities and private employment support establishments began in Kansai.”
Nearly half of adults in Japan with developmental disabilities suffer depression: Mainichi Shimbun poll
“More than 45 percent of respondents to a Mainichi Shimbun survey targeting people with developmental disorders aged 20 and older said they had depression…Of the respondents, 862 had been diagnosed with developmental disabilities, of which 45.5 percent, or 393 people, were diagnosed with depression.”
Hyogo prefectural police instructed pay compensation over illegal DNA collection from intellectually disabled man
“A man,41, from Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, who has autism due to severe intellectual disability, who sought damages of ¥ 16.5 million from the prefecture, because his DNA was collected from prefectural police without consent. He was awarded 110,000 yen. The ruling was made at Kobe District Court on the 13th March. “
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