“Sadakazu Tanigaki was injured in a wheelchair by a bicycle accident while he was the Secretary General of the LDP, and uses a wheelchair. In the lecture said, “It is a big problem whether there is a place for people with disabilities in society.
“A network of advisory services to address concerns of parents who worry about becoming sick or dying, and having no way of caring for their physically or mentally disabled children, has been spreading in Japan.”
“Set up in 1965, just a year after the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics, Japan Sun Industries has been building communities where the disabled can live independent lives based on the mission of the late Yutaka Nakamura, its founder, to provide opportunities rather than charity.”
“Funago, a member of opposition party Reiwa Shinsengumi, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. He and Abe have known each other for 16 years.”
“The suspect is reported to have said, “I thought that a child with intellectual disabilities would come home,” “I can no longer control my feelings about her.””
“According to the police, at 7:40 pm on August 28, the suspect held and dragged both legs of a 30-year-old man in the facility, bruising and scratching his knees.”
“According to officials, the eldest son had a disability, and the defendant stated at the investigation stage that he “worried about his son’s future”.”
“It has so far approved pre-implantation diagnosis, in which genes and chromosomes of eggs fertilized in vitro are examined, for limited cases including serious genetic disorders, due to criticism that the method could lead to the selection of life.”
“…it is difficult to say that there has been sufficient consideration from the viewpoint of the disabled.”
“Eiko Kimura, a disabled person who was recently elected to the Japanese parliament’s Upper House was interviewed by The Tokyo Shimbun. Eiko Kimura was born in Yokohama. At the age of eight months, she fell from the entrance and became disabled. After graduating from school, he started living alone in Kunitachi, Tokyo at the age of 19. Kimura established the “Independence Station Tsubasa”, in Tama City, in 1994 to support the independence of persons with disabilities and she is the secretary-general of the organization.”
Barrier Free Japan