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The alert was broadcast on NHK at around 22:47 on Monday 27th May 2024. Residents of Okinawa were advised to take shelter and the advisory was later lifted.
“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.
Athletes and fans alike praised a “successful” World Para Athletics Championships on Saturday, lauding the tournament for its level of organization and accessibility on its last day in host city Kobe.
Academic and other members of a Japanese government panel Thursday proposed changing the country’s age definition of elderly people from 65 or over to 70 or over, in line with an increase in healthy life expectancy.
Despite Saturday marking a full year since a fatal stabbing and shooting incident in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, it remains uncertain when hearings will begin in the trial. According to his lawyer, Aoki has accepted visits but has shown little interest in most things, remaining silent about the incident, in which four people were killed. He is being held at a facility in Nagano, after he was indicted last November following three months of detention for psychiatric evaluation.
A woman in her 70s died at her home in Nagoya’s Meito Ward, and her severely disabled son in his 40s, who lived with her, was found in a weakened state on the 14th of this month.
A woman in her 70s died at her home in Nagoya’s Meito Ward, and her severely disabled son in his 40s, who lived with her, was found in a weakened state on the 14th of this month.
The Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships is the first time the Para Athletics World Championships has been held in an East-Asian country. Barrier Free Japan had a look at the entrance to the stadium on May 21st.
At Nihonkai General Hospital in the city of Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Kishida inspected reception work for which the number of staff was reduced through the use of My Number social security and taxation identification cards integrated with health insurance certificates.
Japan’s Supreme Court will take measures to accommodate disabled plaintiffs in five damages lawsuits over forced sterilization under the now-defunct eugenic protection law, including setting up ramps for wheelchair users. It will be the first time for the top court to implement measures for disabled people on a large scale.
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