Sponsors, volunteers show support for Paralympic Games postponement
Volunteers for the Paralympic Games said the postponement will provide extra time for preparing barrier-free access to venues and transportation.
Category: Japan
As deadline approaches, Sagamihara killer re-states that he will not appeal death sentence
Satoshi Uematsu, aged 30, was found guilty on March 16 and sentenced to death. The deadline to appeal the sentence is March 30.
IPC President responds to Games Postponement
IPC President, Andrew Parsons said: reaction:
“Postponing the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games as a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak is absolutely the right thing to do. The health and well-being of human life must always be our number one priority and staging a sport event of any kind during this pandemic is simply not possible.”
Japanese Singer, Disability Welfare Facility Founder Mariko Miyagi Dies
Her experience of playing the role of a child with cerebral palsy on the stage led Miyagi to establish and become head of Nemunoki Gakuen for physically disabled children in the town of Hamaoka, now the city of Omaezaki, in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, in 1968.
Lawmaker with cerebral palsy excluded from COVID-19 committee meeting, claims discrimination
On Thursday March 19th, Eiko Kimura, a representative of the House of Councillors and a member of the Reiwa Shinsengumi, who has cerebral palsy, was excluded from a cross-party committee meeting about the novel coronavirus threat.
International Paralympic Committee responds to COVID-19 concerns
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has begun sharing information about COVID-19 and the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Yokohama District Court finds “no discrimination” in refusing place at elementary school for severely disabled boy
A legal challenge by the parents of a child with a severe disability, seeking to send their son, Kazuki Kousuke, aged 8, to an elementary school in Kawasaki City was rejected by the Yokohama District Court on March 18.
Documents and materials relating to Sagamihara care home killings to be permanently preserved
Sagamihara City Information Disclosure Division Manager Kazuaki Yamaguchi said, “It was a serious incident, and we believe that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that it can be verified in the future and that such incidents will never occur again.”
Japan’s Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry compiles support measurs for people with disabilities during COVID-19 crisis
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has compiled support measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection in facilities for persons with disabilities.
Kamogawa City distributes 15,000 masks for elderly and disabled people
Kamogawa City in Chiba prefecture has begun distributing 15,000 masks stored in the city to prevent the elderly and disabled from getting the new coronavirus. It targets medical institutions and nursing & disability facilities in the city.
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