With Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Less Than a Week Away, Coronavirus Blights Games
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will begin with the Opening Ceremony on August 24and ends on September 5.
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Many Back Decision to Ban Spectators for Tokyo Paralympics
Many people have voiced support for a decision made Monday to hold the Tokyo Paralympics with no live spectators in principle at all venues amid the rapid resurgence of the novel coronavirus in Japan.
Tokyo Paralympics organisers opens wheelchair, prosthetic limb repair centre in Games village
The organisers said about 100 staff will provide repair and maintenance services at the centre as well as in booths at 14 competition venues. Services will include tyre replacements and welding repairs on wheelchairs.
Disability News Japan Podcast Episode 74: Musician who worked for Tokyo 2020 Olympics, boasted of assaulting disabled is removed from Fuji Rock line-up
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
Tokyo Paralympics to be held without spectators due to COVID
The Tokyo Paralympics will be held without spectators at all venues due to an alarming rise in coronavirus infections in the host city and many other parts of Japan, officials familiar with the planning said Monday, about a week before the opening of the games.
Musician who worked for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and boasted of assaulting disabled is removed from Fuji Rock line-up
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
Eight new cases of coronavirus infection related to the Tokyo Paralympics reported
Eight new infection cases related to the Tokyo Paralympics were reported Sunday, none of which were athletes, the organizers said.
Tokyo government plans shuttle buses to take schoolchildren to Paralympics events
The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to provide shuttle buses to ferry groups of schoolchildren to Tokyo Paralympics…By supplying an alternative to public transportation, the government aims to assuage concerns about the risk of infection with the novel coronavirus that have been raised by parents and municipalities over the school-viewing program planned for the Paralympic Games
Japan to give public employees paid leave for fertility treatment
An online survey, conducted in January and February, receiving responses from roughly 47,000 national public employees, showed 1.8 percent were undergoing fertility treatment while 10.1 percent said they have experience with it and 3.7 percent said they had considered it.
Among people who have experienced fertility treatment or were considering it, 62.5 percent said it was “very difficult” to balance it with work while 11.3 percent said it was “impossible,” the most common reasons being the need to make frequent visits to the doctor, cost and scheduling conflicts with work.
The National Personnel Authority’s new scheme aims to ease the burden by enabling full-time and part-time national public employees to take five days of paid leave, with five additional days available if necessary.
The time off can be broken up and used flexibly, such as by taking a few hours off to see the doctor during work, for example.
Increasing access to fertility treatment has been a focus for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who pushed for it to be covered by Japan’s public health insurance from next April.
The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low of 840,832 in 2020, with the recent downward trend exacerbated by the social and economic impact of COVID-19.
The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, stood at 1.34, down from the previous year by 0.02 point.
Staff and residents test positive for COVID at Sagamihara facility for the disabled, cluster confirmed
Twenty-eight new residents and six staff members were found to be positive at a support facility for people with disabilities in Midori Ward, Sagamihara City.
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