“While Japan targets seventh place or better in next year’s Paralympic medal table, para sports organizers believe it is unlikely Japan will be able to pull off the kind of long-term growth former hosts China and Britain have enjoyed.”
“On August 22nd, the Oita District Court ruled in a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs, were seeking damages totaling approximately 53.64 million yen. The case concerned an incident that occurred in 2014, when an unemployed man with an intellectual disability aged 42 and the caretaker managing the apartment where he lived, who was aged 62, both died following an altercation.”
“The allegation of arrest was allegedly touching the body of a high school girl, aged 16 in the city at a support facility for the disabled in Kita-ku, Tokyo, around July 13.”
“The police station requested the woman voluntarily come to the station in May, and the woman visited the station with her mother. The clerk collected DNA from the woman’s mouth. The station claims that the collection was made with written consent. On the other hand, the woman said that she “did not agree” and that her mother did not approve. The station sent a document to the woman for allegedly damaging the property.”
“The corporation that operates the facility offered a payment of 18 million yen, but the bereaved family said, “..there is a difference in the amount of compensation between the healthy person and the disabled person…I am against it,” and was seeking compensation of more than 72 million yen, the same amount as a healthy person.”
“A total of 68 percent said they are either “very excited” or “excited” about the Tokyo Paralympics.However, 38 percent of respondents said the event is unlikely to increase the understanding of people with disabilities…”
“”When the games end, we’ll continue,” Toshio Yamada, the Japanese Para-Sports Association executive director, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News.”
“Investigators said the suspect admitted to stabbing the public servant but has made nonsensical remarks in regard to a motive. The police will judge whether he can be held criminally responsible.”
“According to police, the suspect, who works at a university, slashed his son in the neck with a knife at around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, while they were in a car parked on a vacant plot of land in Wakabayashi Ward.”
“Funago, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, cannot speak and communicates instead by having an assistant track his eye movements along a “communication board” that displays letters.”
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