Prosecutors on Monday demanded capital punishment for a man charged with murdering 19 residents and injuring 26 other people at a care home for the mentally disabled near Tokyo, in a 2016 knife rampage.
The number of fatal accidents caused by drivers aged 75 or older fell to 401 in Japan in 2019, accounting for 14.4 percent of the total, slightly lower than a record high seen the previous year, police data showed Thursday.
On February 13th. the Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrested a man, aged 48, on suspicion of forced obscene behavior with a girl with intellectual disabilities in a toilet. The suspect is reported to have said that he did it “to satisfy sexual desire.”
The eastern Japan city of Chiba is aiming to become a hub for wheelchair sports, capitalizing on the Tokyo Paralympic Games this summer.
A lawyer read the thoughts of a 43-year-old mother called “Ko S’ in court said, “The defendant said “Disabled people create misfortune,” but they made happiness, not misfortune. There was struggle, but struggle and misfortune are different. I want to make it a better place to live, so that these incidents never happen again. “
A woman in her 80s in Kanagawa Prefecture has died of the new coronavirus, the first confirmed fatality in Japan, the health minister said Thursday. The government has decided to allow elderly passengers suffering from chronic illnesses to disembark earlier than scheduled if they test negative for the virus.
The brother of a sixty year old woman who died in the attack bowed deeply toward the defendant and then asked the defendant for the death penalty.
Yasuhiko Funago and Eiko Kimura are demanding to be heard as they fight to improve the lives of people with disabilities in Japan, where many in the community complain of feeling “invisible”.
Previously, the free distribution had been limited to pregnant women, but will now also distributed to persons with disabilities in the 1st and 2nd grades of disability and those who are receiving home oxygen therapy.
The elderly passengers and those with chronic health problems may leave the cruise ship as early as Tuesday morning, the source said.
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