IPC names 6 athletes to Tokyo Paralympic refugee team
According to the International Paralympic Committee, about 12 million of the over 82 million forcibly displaced people around the world have some degree of disability.
Category: Japan
Former employee at Hyogo facility for the disabled sentenced to prison over abusing resident on a daily basis
The Amagasaki Branch of the Kobe District Court has sentenced a former employee of a facility for the disabled in Nishinomiya City to two years and four months in prison on charges of assault and battery for abusing a resident.
Barrier Free Japan will receive the Pfizer vaccine in July in Japan!
Apparently ‘bumped up the list’ a bit due to underlying conditions, Disability News Japan will get a Pfizer vaccine in July in Japan!
Platform edges raised on JR Tokai bullet train stations to improve wheelchair access
The edge of the platform has been raised to reduce the gap between the platform and the carriage to about three centimetres, and the sides of the platform have been fitted with rubber parts to narrow the gap between the platform and the carriage so that wheelchair tyres cannot get stuck.
Japan’s Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology to allow pre-implantation testing to detect diseases that may cause death “before adulthood in principle”
In a report compiled in May, the society had indicated a plan to allow preimplantation testing to be performed to detect diseases that may cause death “before adulthood in principle.” By using the expression “in principle,” the society aims to leave open the possibility of diseases that occur during adulthood being covered by the testing, while stopping short of listing specific disease names.
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.
People with disabilities in Japan found gaining employment increasingly difficult during pandemic
The number of people with disabilities who found jobs through Hello Work in Japan last year was 89,000, down 12% from the previous year due to the new coronavirus,
Railway company in Japan produces educational posters to aid understanding of people with intellectual disabilities
The Sanyo Electric Railway has produced a series of posters to raise awareness of the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities in stations and on trains.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Poster Unveiled, first time a poster was “selected to symbolise the Paralympic Games”
It is the first time that a separate Iconic Poster has been selected to symbolise the Paralympic Games.
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.
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