“A Japanese woman with a developmental disorder has devised a card to help others with disabilities better communicate their rather uncommon symptoms in an attempt to reach out to the rest of the public.”
“Ministries and agencies are believed to have misrepresented the rates by including in their head counts personnel with relatively mild disabilities who do not carry disability certificates. Officials at the land and internal affairs ministries have said that people without the disability certificates may have been included in the calculations.”
“As the number of people with mental disorders increases, it aims to boost employment of people who have difficult symptoms for a long time. From the end of this month, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will begin having meetings with experts to examine concrete subsidy plans.”
“The ‘help mark’ was created by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2012 to help people with hidden impediments, or “invisible disabilities.” This includes people with prosthetic legs, artificial joints, internal ailments, and rare diseases.”
“Since its establishment in 2014, Takumi Takeuchi, 38, and his wife, Ai, 35, who manage the farm, have been collaborating with a welfare office under a government program for developing the linkage between agriculture and welfare, an initiative aimed at promoting the employment of people with disabilities.”
“There are cases where welfare offices in Ishikawa prefecture cannot respond to the needs of users of helpers due to lack of guide helpers that support the mentally handicapped persons going out. The prefecture hopes to concentrate on weekends and so on. There are circumstances that there are not a few helpers who have different jobs such as group home staff.”
“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%.”
“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…”
“TOKYO — The Japan Pension Service has decided to reverse course and continue to pay basic disability pensions to more than 1,000 recipients with less severe disabilities, after the Mainichi Shimbun reported that the service was considering terminating them.”
“Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward will expand the number of ‘consultation windows’ for persons with disabilities and disability welfare services. There are three consultation centers for people with disabilities in the present district, but it will be made possible for 20 elderly care assistance centers to respond to 20 elderly people. To prepare for rapid aging, prepare an environment where people with disabilities can consult at familiar places.”
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