Esports players with impairments continue to break down barriers in Japan
Keen to offer Japanese gamers with disabilities a chance to be part of the action, social welfare worker Daiki Kato founded a company called ePara in 2016.
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A memorial service was held on Tuesday to mourn the victims of a knifing rampage that took place at a care home for mentally disabled people in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, exactly six years ago.
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Disability News Japan Reboot! Possible Sagamihara Stabbings Retrial & Three Years Since KyoAni
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Director of Saitama facility for people with disabilities accused of quasi-obscenity: “I did it as part of my education”
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Nearly six years after the Sagamihara Stabbings, director of the facility for people with disabilities gives lecture to staff
The director of a facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Sagamihara City gave a lecture to city officials involved in welfare, ahead of the sixth anniversary this month of the murders of 19 people at a facility for the people with intellectual disabilites. The director of the facility gave a lecture to city officials involved in welfare, urging them to “respect the wishes of the people concerned and support them.”
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