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by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 14, 2022 0

Japan to encourage online medical care as COVID, flu spread in winter

Japan’s health ministry said Thursday those at low risk of developing serious coronavirus symptoms will be encouraged to use at-home test kits and online medical services this winter, when COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are expected to spread simultaneously.

The measures, which assume a peak of 750,000 cases per day, seek to lessen the burden on hospitals and prioritize medical care for the elderly amid warnings of another surge of viruses during the upcoming colder months.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 11, 2022 0

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Civil suit finally awards woman with intellectual disabilities working at facility for people with disabilities redress for sexual abuse

A court here ordered the former head of a facility providing support for people with disabilities to pay compensation to a young woman, who herself has an intellectual disability, for sexual abuse she suffered while working there.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 9, 2022 0

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Japanese Government to Demand that Big Hospitals Give Medical Care during Epidemic

The Japanese government adopted at a cabinet meeting on Friday 7th October bills partly aimed at obliging large hospitals in the country to keep providing medical services even if patients surge in times of epidemics.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 9, 2022 0

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Tokyo to host Summer 2025 Deaflympics

The Summer Deaflympics, an international sporting event for the hearing impaired, will be held in Tokyo in 2025. This is the first time Japan will host the Deaflympics, and follows Tokyo’s hosting of the Paralympics in 2021, another major international sporting event for the disabled.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 6, 2022 0

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Resident at support facility for people with disabilities in Gunma Prefecture dies, staff member arrested on suspicion of injury

A part-time staff member at a support facility for people with disabilities in Shibukawa City, Gunma Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of injury after he pushed a man who was staying at the facility and injured him.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 5, 2022 0

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Disability News Japan Reboot beta verstion! New Forced Sterilization Claims & The Return of the Deep Japan Podcast

Disability News Japan Reboot beta verstion! New Forced Sterilization Claims

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 4, 2022 0

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Disabled women harassed while riding trains call for policy change

When railway station staff help passengers with disabilities get on and off trains, they announce their locations. But that can aid assailants in pinpointing the locations of vulnerable people they can target.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt October 1, 2022 0

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Tokyo based building firm gives clients commemorative works by disabled artists

Shimizu Corp., a major construction company based in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, is offering its clients paintings created by three disabled artists as commemorative gifts when a new project is completed.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt September 30, 2022 0

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Second grade teacher in Japan replaced for bullying student he believed to have developmental disabilities

A homeroom teacher at a municipal elementary school here has been replaced for bullying a student he thought had a developmental disability, sources close to the city education board have told the Mainichi Shimbun.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt September 29, 2022 0

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Japan’s Eisai’s New Alzheimer’s Drug Found Effective

Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co. and U.S. biopharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. said Wednesday an Alzheimer’s drug they are jointly developing has been found effective in slowing the deterioration of symptoms in a late-stage clinical trial.

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