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by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 25, 2020

After previous infractions, Hyogo Prefecture disability group files petition over disability parking spaces

“We want you to educate the government so that people who need support can use it. With this in mind, a group of persons with disabilities in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture, applied for a petition to the city council, but the adoption was banned by the Standing Committee of the City Council Welfare Education on February 20th. In response to the imprisonment of a disabled person in 2018, Sanda City advocated the development of a symbiotic town, but did not conduct a fact-finding survey based on requests from the organization.”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 23, 2020 0

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Japan needs foster care rather than institutions say U.K. experts

While the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare argues local authority child guidance centers should, as a default, use foster care, they are under no obligation to do so, according to Michael Rivera-King, who has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and will publish a book on foster care in Japan this year.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 22, 2020 0

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Japan Government asks companies to promote telework as virus spreads

The health ministry said Friday it will encourage more companies to promote telework and staggered working hours as part of efforts to prevent further spread of the new coronavirus in Japan.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 21, 2020 0

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Tokyo bus operator ordered to pay damages after disabled man injured

A summary court ordered a Tokyo-based bus operator to pay 330,000 yen in compensation to a man with disabilities after a bus driver departed from a stop before he was seated, resulting in him falling over and getting injured.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 20, 2020 0

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Two elderly passengers from virus-hit ship die in Japan

The deaths of the 87-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture and the 84-year-old woman from Tokyo raised the number of fatalities in Japan of people infected with the COVID-19 virus to three, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 20, 2020 0

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Responding to coronavirus outbreak, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare opens a fax consultation service for the hearing impaired

In response to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has opened a fax consultation service (03.3595.2756) to accept consultations from people who have difficulty hearing or hearing.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 19, 2020 0

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Defendant in 2016 care home massacre trial says he will not appeal ruling

A man on trial for murdering 19 residents and injuring 26 other people at a care home for the mentally disabled in a 2016 knife rampage said Wednesday he will not appeal regardless of the ruling.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 19, 2020 0

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Japanese National championship event for athletes with intellectual disabilities canceled due to coronavirus outbreak

A national championship for athletes with intellectual disabilities has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Special Olympics Nippon National Winter Games Hokkaido 2020 were scheduled to kick off this Friday in Hokkaido, northern Japan. But organizers decided to cancel the three-day event on Monday.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 18, 2020 0

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Wakayama Prefecture Welfare Division reports increase of abuse against people with disabilities in Fiscal Year 2018

In fiscal year 2018, Wakayama Prefecture dealt with forty-seven reports regarding disability abuse, an increase of ten reports compared to the previous year.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt February 17, 2020 0

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NHK Reports prosecutors seeking the death penalty for care home massacre suspect [Video in English]

The trial of a man accused of killing 19 people and injuring 24 others at a care home in Sagamihara City on July 26th 2016, resumed on February 12. The family and others came to court to discuss their feelings about the incident.