Category: Japan

by Michael Gillan Peckitt June 26, 2021 Number of comments0
Coronavirus COVID-19 Deaf Hearing Impaired Japan

After a hearing-impaired person was refused care, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare requests local gov’ts use sign language during pandemic

After a hearing-impaired person infected with the new corona virus was refused the use of accommodation facilities because it was difficult to communicate by telephone, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has issued a notice to local governments asking them to introduce remote sign language interpretation and written communication so that people with hearing disabilities infected with the new coronavirus can use facilities.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt June 23, 2021 Number of comments0
Abuse Crime Disability Japan Sexual abuse

Fukuoka man, 73, arrested for obscenity after allegedly touching developmentally disabled high school girl

The man is suspected of touching her body from the top of her clothes when a high school girl (16) was in a state of confusion at around 4 pm on May 31 in an apartment in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. She denies the charges, saying “she doesn’t remember.” The high school girl has a developmental disability and she had little awareness of what she was doing.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt June 20, 2021 Number of comments0
Coronavirus COVID-19 Disability Japan

Coronavirus cluster confirmed at a facility for children with disabilities in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, five people infected

All those who are infected live in Shimonoseki City, and four of them are patients and staff of a day-care centre for disabled children, including one person who had already been infected, five people were confirmed to have been infected at the facility, and the city has confirmed the outbreak as a cluster.