JR East launches escalator safety campaign after logging 180 accidents in fiscal 2017
“Dangerous incidents included a drunken passenger who tripped, a person being hit by a falling suitcase and someone’s clothing getting stuck in the escalator.”
Category: Japan
Critics: Book on killer of disabled people sends wrong message
““Akerareta Pandora no Hako” (Pandora’s box opened) was published by Tsukuru Publishing Co. ahead of the second anniversary of the attack at a facility for disabled people in Kanagawa Prefecture.”
Two years after Sagamihara, NHK documentaries ask ‘What is co-existence with the disabled?’
“NHK aired two documentaries on Saturday 21st July 2018, one on NHK G, it’s main channel at 9pm about Sagamihara, and one on its documentary channel, NHK E at 11pm about forced sterilization.”
Kawasaki city boy denied kindergarten place due to disability
“Kazuki Kagasaki (6) and his parents want Kazuki; who has a disability, to go to a school in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture, but found it was illegal to designate the school as a ‘special support school’, a status that would allow Kazuki to attend.”
Ministry to urge improvement of airport accessibility ahead of Games
“The tourism ministry will step up efforts to make the nation’s airports more accessible for disabled people ahead of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it has been learned.”
Japan to increase number of wheelchair-friendly hotel rooms
“Under the new rules, hotels with 201 to 300 rooms, for example, would have to have three or more rooms accessible to wheelchair users.”
Japanese Government must do more to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities
“According to the summary of the Cabinet Office as of April 17, the number of municipalities that formulated response procedures was 64.3%, while the number of councils was only 41.4%.”
Parents of disabled son who died in West Japan floods speak about ‘family treasure’
“We wanted him to return alive. Kyohei Yamaguchi (20) of Imari city, Saga Prefecture, who went missing as a result of the heavy rain that struck West Japan, was near a disabled residential facility and his body was discovered on the coast, downstream, two days later. Kyohei was heavily autistic and loved the water. In the heavy rain, it seems that he was the only one entered the muddy stream to go to see the river. His parents trembled, “He was a treasure of our family.” ”
“Everything remains uncertain” for rain disaster evacuees in Japan amidst the heat
“At an evacuation center in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, 69-year-old Michiko Wakisaka, whose home was hit by a landslide, said she moved from another evacuation center after finding it only had squat-style toilets she cannot use due to disability.”
Board of education apologizes to deaf group refused lodging
“The Shizuoka association of the deaf has received an apology from the board of education of Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, after a lodging facility owned by the education board refused in January a request to accommodate a group of about 100 hearing-impaired persons on the grounds that their safety could not be guaranteed…”
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