Group home for disabled people built in Ishikawa prefecture
“Parents who care for persons with disabilities are aging, worried about the future of children, I want to aim for a society where people with disabilities can coexist.”
Category: Japan
Japan’s PyeongChang Paralympic team inaugurated
“Japan has officially inaugurated its team of athletes for the PyeongChang Paralympics, scheduled to take place in South Korea next month.”
Kobe district court finds 87-year-old man with “dementia and memory impairment” not guilty of shoplifting
“A judgement by the courts of an unemployed male in the city (87) who was questioned for theft as a shoplifting in the supermarket in Kobe was held at the Kobe District Court on 23rd, and judge Kurao Atsushi said ” It is not admitted that there was willful intent of theft”
In Kagoshima, for disabled persons ‘Basic life is not guaranteed’
“There is no pleasure, if there is no mobility support”
Second lawsuit eyed against government over eugenics law, as records in 13 prefectures show sterilizations of children aged 15 and below
“A Hokkaido man in his 70s plans to file a lawsuit seeking damages from the government over his forced sterilization at around age 20 under the 1948 eugenic protection law, sources said Thursday, as a related investigation unearthed documents showing children aged 15 and below — including one as young as 9 — were also sterilized under the law.”
Hokkaido leads in compulsory sterilization with 2,593 victims
“Hokkaido’s record of compulsory sterilizations over nearly five decades far outstrips any other jurisdiction in Japan, with at least 2,593 people forced to undergo the procedure due to intellectual disability”
Japan seeks to help disabled women “Become a big fighting force”
“The enforcement of revised Employment Promotion Law of Persons with Disabilities in April this year, the proportion of people with disabilities (statutory employment rate) to be hired by companies etc. was raised by 0.2% to 2.2%. It is difficult for women to balance childbirth and raising children with jobs, but for those with disabilities , the degree of difficulty is further increased. In order to demonstrate their abilities, certain considerations and an appropriate response are necessary.”
“Education with or without obstacles together”
“Inclusive education is prescribed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and “rational consideration” it is necessary to so that the people without disabilities have the same rights as others and can exercise this rights.”
“Everyone will need a ‘Priority Seat’ someday”: Good Manners on Priority Seats (Part 2)
“Everyone will need a priority seat some day: the Priority seat” has not been able to become a fixed rule, it is the current situation that we must rely on people’s manners such as conscience, mutual assistance and kindness.”
When it comes to priority seats, good manners are important (Part 1)
“There is a married couple, and the woman is disabled and has a cane. Her husband said to the young man who is nearest to the door “I’m sorry, I cannot stand for a long time, can you give me the seat?” Then the smartphone man gave a loud voice saying “I am tired! Passengers around me watched all at once, so it was so loud and fought back. Still, the smartphone man will not give up his seat as cancer. It is probably a “healthy person” who is absorbed in the smartphone of other priority seats.”
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