Para-athlete Natsumi Inouchi has won the Beppu Oita Marathon, winning the women’s visually impaired category, finishing at 3 hours, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
Inouchi fell from a station platform in November last year, colliding with a train. She was unable to train for a month due to a right leg injury, and finished the Hofu Yomiuri Marathon in December in 3 hours and 25 minutes.
Many hospitals in Japan have experienced difficulties dealing with cancer patients with dementia, a survey by the Japan Cancer Society showed Saturday.
The survey was carried out in April-June 2023 for 451 hospitals designated by the health minister to provide high-quality treatment to cancer patients, with 256 of them, or 57 pct, giving responses.
The Japanese government will create a new program in which financial assistance of up to ¥3 million will be provided to households with elderly or disabled members in six municipalities in the northern Noto Peninsula, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday.
The program is aimed to help residents of the disaster-hit area, which has a large elderly population, rebuild their lives.
A symposium was held in Saitama City on February 1st to consider what kind of support elderly people and people with disabilities who have committed crimes need in order to live in the community without re-offending.
The symposium was held by the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office and other organizations, and approximately 300 people gathered at the venue in Saitama City.
Among those who commit crimes, it is said that it is difficult for the elderly and those with disabilities to reintegrate into society, and prosecutors are working to connect people with high welfare needs, such as those whose prosecution has been suspended, to relevant organizations.
On January 30th, users of a facility for the disabled in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which was hit by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, and their families evacuated to a facility in Aichi Prefecture, together with the staff who had been supporting them.
On January 30th, users of a facility for the disabled in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which was hit by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, and their families evacuated to a facility in Aichi Prefecture, together with the staff who had been supporting them.
A total of 19 people, including users and family members of a facility for people with disabilities run by the social welfare corporation Kowa-kai in Wajima City, as well as support staff, moved from Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, where they had been staying temporarily since the earthquake, to a facility in Aichi Prefecture on January 30th.
Takiyama Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Hachioji, Tokyo, where an incident of assault on an inpatient by a nurse occurred, received guidance from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that measures to prevent recurrence were insufficient, and the hospital’s director and board members.
An improvement plan to the metropolitan government was resubmitted, a plan that includes the resignation of the head of the department.
Last year, the number of cases in which people with disabilities were abused by family members in Shimane Prefecture was seven, the lowest since statistics began being kept, and the prefecture hopes to further prevent abuse by strengthening its systems.
On the other hand, the number of consultations and reports regarding people being abused at facilities increased by 10 from the previous year to 24, and 6 of these cases were considered abuse.
The audio is from a NHK G TV programme broadcast at 7PM on Tuesday 30th January 2024. It reports that vulnerable people, such as the elderly and those with disabilities, continue to struggle after the earthquake that hit Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan on January 1st 2024.
Prior to the criminal complaint, the man filed a civil suit against the online poster, seeking compensation for damages, and the Maebashi District Court ordered him to pay approximately 960,000 yen on December 8, 2023.
The criminal complaint was filed because the online contributor submitted a written defense in the civil trial, stating that the man was “such a socially unacceptable item”.
Barrier Free Japan