Category: Kobe World Para Athletics Championships

by Michael Gillan Peckitt May 26, 2024 Number of comments0
Barrier Free Disability Japan Kobe World Para Athletics Championships Podcast Shog.A.I. Shimbun

The Shog-A.I. Shimbun Podcast #29: Kobe Para Sports, Journalism in Japan & ‘Wheelchair-bound’ versus ‘Wheelchair User’

“But another Kobe resident in her 50s said that the city was “divided in some parts,” while also lamenting that attendance could have been better. She came to see the tournament with her husband and daughter, who has cerebral palsy and is wheelchair-bound.”

Some people with disabilities who use wheelchairs find ‘wheelchair-bound’ to be offensive and prefer the term ‘wheelchair user’. Barrier Free Japan sometimes gets comments and posts on social media about this issue.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt April 28, 2024 Number of comments0
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The Shog-A.I. Shimbun Podcast #22: Kobe Gets ‘PARAgrressive’ about Sports, Disabled Writer Ototake ‘Certain’ to Lose By-Election

On April 27th Kobe City started to literally ‘fly the flag’ – put out flags in Kobe City – heralding the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships to be held from May 17th – May 25th.
An event titled ‘PARAgrressive Day’ was held in various locations in Kobe. Barrier Free Japan made some videos!
As of the evening of April 28th 2024, Hirotada Ototake is set to lose the by-election for a House of Representatives seat. On April 23rd it was reported that someone was arrested for attacking a staffer working for Ototake.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 10, 2023 Number of comments0
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Postponed Due to COVID, the Kobe 2024 ‘World Para Athletics Championships’ Begins a Countdown to the Games

The World Para Athletics Championships is the world’s premier para athletics event established by the International Paralympic Committee. The first conference was held in Berlin, Germany in 1994, and since the fifth conference in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011.

The Kobe Games were scheduled to be held in 2021, but were forced to be postponed twice due to the global pandemic of the new coronavirus.