“Tomoka Igari, who uses a wheelchair since an accident in April, said she would like to contribute “I love you Fukui” as a prefectural performer that “an understanding of people with disabilities deepens”.
“Even though we have the power to live alone, some people need environmental improvements to achieve independent living. As a result of being close to individual users, the form of a one-room apartment Is possible.”
“Even if my dad and mom no longer say it
Firmly
Even more than today
I will make it tomorrow
Please forgive me please.
I will not do the same with you already.
What I had not done at all yesterday
I will do what I have done so far
Because I feel like playing
I will definitely try not to do it absolutely. “
“Since I have not yet received concrete consultation (such as application from the city), I will refrain from replying as to whether or not”.
“The Kanagawa prefectural government announced on June 1st that it will extend the target for intellectual and mentally handicapped persons from the current fiscal year on staff recruitment exams that have been implemented for people with disabilities. The prefecture will take the initiative and take action to accept disabled people in response to the incident that occurred at welfare facility for intellectually disabled people in the Sagamihara city based “Tsukui Yamayuri-en” in 2016 that resulted in the deaths of at least 19 of its disabled residents.”
“The late official, Shunichi Kakurai, who headed the then Health and Welfare Ministry’s public health bureau, also asserted that the law’s provision that allowed forced sterilization operations as “necessary for public good” was “very problematic.” ”
“A woman in Kumamoto city is seeking damages and has given notice of her intention to file a complaint in the Kumamoto district court; having undergone surgery without having a disorder.”
“I’d like you to listen carefully to the stakeholders’ story that discriminatory sterilization has been performed”
Written with extracts from the Nishi Nippon Shimbun June 1st 2018 Kazumi Shishido (81), a hearing-impaired person living in theContinue Reading
“More than 900 victims of forced sterilizations have been newly identified in 11 prefectures under the postwar Eugenic Protection Law, according to the latest Asahi Shimbun survey.
The additional records and documents found between mid-May and mid-March list 914 names of men and women in 11 prefectures, bringing the total to 4,773 in 29 prefectures.”
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