Category: Japan

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 27, 2024 Number of comments0
Disability Human Rights Japan Korea Podcast

South Korean Disability Activist Park Kyung-Seok Deported at Narita [Podcast Episode]

On November 22nd, a Korean disability activist Park Kyung-Seok was deported from Japan after seven hours at Narita Airport, along with his two caregivers. The reason given for Park’s deportation was that in South Korea he has received a suspended sentence for violation of the Assemblies and Demonstrations Act in 2012 for attending an illegal demonstration in South Korea and that under Article 5, paragraph 1, paragraph 4 of the Japanese Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Park could be deported. However, Park had been allowed to enter Japan in 2016 and in May of this year, at the invitation of Amnesty International, according to Daisaku Seto of the ‘Anti-Poverty Network’.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 26, 2024 1
Disability Human Rights Immigration Japan Korea

Reasons Emerge for Korean Disability Activist Park Kyung-Seok’s Deportation at Narita

On November 22nd, a Korean disability activist Park Kyung-Seok was deported from Japan after seven hours at Narita Airport, along with his two caregivers. The reason given for Park’s deportation was that in South Korea he has received a suspended sentence for violation of the Assemblies and Demonstrations Act in 2012 for attending an illegal demonstration in South Korea and that under Article 5, paragraph 1, paragraph 4 of the Japanese Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act Park could be deported. However, Park had been allowed to enter Japan in 2016 and in May of this year, at the invitation of Amnesty International, according to Daisaku Seto of the ‘Anti-Poverty Network’.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 25, 2024 Number of comments0
Crime Elderly Japan Travel

93-Yr-Old Inmate over Tokyo Car Crash Dies

The 93-year-old inmate over a car crash in which a mother and her young daughter were killed in Tokyo’s busy Ikebukuro district in April 2019 has died of old age, it was learned Monday. Kozo Iizuka, former head of the government’s now-defunct Agency of Industrial Science and Technology died on Oct. 26 while serving a five-year term for negligent driving causing death and injury in the accident, informed sources said.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 25, 2024 Number of comments0
ALS Assisted Dying Disability Euthanasia Japan Yuri Hayashi

Doctor’s 18 Year-Term for Consensual Killing of ALS Patient Upheld

The Osaka High Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a doctor, Yoshikazu Okubo, aged 46, to 18 years in prison for the consensual killing of a woman, Yuri Hayashi, 51, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare neurological disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2019 in western Japan.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 24, 2024 1
Coronavirus COVID-19 Disability Elderly Japan

Japan’s weekly COVID-19 cases rise for 1st time in 3 months

The weekly average of new coronavirus cases at designated hospitals across Japan rose for the first time in three months in the seven days through last Sunday, health ministry data showed Friday. The number of newly hospitalized COVID-19 patients reported by about 500 designated medical organizations nationwide was 1,175, up 37 percent from the week before.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 23, 2024 Number of comments0
Care Disability Employment Japan

Japan Govt Aims to Ease Care Worker Shortages through Wage Hikes

The Japanese government will help raise wages for care workers to alleviate labor shortages in the sector, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Takamaro Fukuoka said in a recent interview.
Staff shortages at care facilities are “very serious,” Fukuoka said. He then noted that “the pay growth rate in the sector is said to be low”

by Michael Gillan Peckitt November 22, 2024 Number of comments0
Barrier Free Disability Film Japan Podcast

Niigata Civic Group Produces Film About People with Disabilities「Voice～あなたの声がききたい～」[Podcast Episode]

A civic group and university students in Higashi Ward, Niigata City, produced a short film “Voice ~ I want to hear your voice ~”. A person involved said, “We hope that this will be an opportunity for people to learn about the real daily life of living together with people with disabilities.” The film collects candid opinions about the image of people with disabilities and asks the question, “What is a disability? The film asks the question, “What is disability? The filmmakers hope that the audience will learn about the real daily lives of people with disabilities.