“Yuji Kuwayama, 62, and his wife Akiko, 58, were driven by a sense of danger in “receding relief measures.” Although reluctant at first, the Ministry of Finance resumed returning investment profits that had been diverted from the transport ministry’s special account to the state’s general account, for the first time in 15 years.”
“Businesses that employ disabled people in Japan are called ‘Type B workshops’. A report by a disability group reports that 60% of 866 such ‘workshops’ say they received smaller government rewards this fiscal year.”
“A new report shows financial assets of people with senile dementia in Japan have topped 143 trillion yen, or over 1.27 trillion dollars, as of March this year.”
“There is a shortage of support workers or ‘helpers’ for disabled people in Japan.”
“Businesses in Kyoto City, which conduct “Planning Counseling Support Projects” that creates and revises the plans necessary for using disability welfare services made the decision to withdraw some services because “it cannot be made profitable if we try to carefully face each person,” but also where we started “counseling of counseling office” as a new project. The planning rate of Kyoto Prefecture persons with disabilities is considered the second worst in the country.
“The help mark is a design with a white cross and heart arranged on a red background, Tokyo introduced in 2012. It has already being used in 34 prefectures.”
“Rather than having a provider and a receiver of welfare services, people who are struggling can become help for others in need,”
“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.”
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