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Disability News Japan
Hosted by Michael Gillan Peckitt, who resides in Kobe, Japan, the Disability News Japan Podcast is News website 'Barrier Free Japan's podcast, a weekly digest of some of the news about disability in Japan in audio form. New episodes will usually be available every Friday at 6am Japan Time.
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Withdrawal of Appeal against Death Sentence Found Valid in KyoAni Case
In the ruling on Tuesday 17th March, Presiding Judge Hisashi Ito said that Aoba clearly understood the meaning of his decision, and that the impact of...
Oita Prefecture receives notebooks to assist hearing-impaired in emergencies
The notebooks include instructions such as “Please call 110 (police)” and are intended for use by people who are deaf or have difficulty speaking, ena...
Patient Dies, Two Critical after Injections at Hospital near Tokyo
A male leukemia patient between 10 and 19 died and two other young male patients are unconscious after spinal injections of anticancer drugs at a hosp...
Japan Ends Milano-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games with 100th Medal & Muraoka Japan’s Most Decorated Winter Paralympian
Japan’s Daichi Oguri won the silver medal in the men’s snowboard banked slalom SB-LL1 event at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics on Friday. This is Japan...
“Stop your damn crying”: Guilty Verdict for Staff Member in Abuse Case at Hyogo Facility for Disabled
In September 2025, a 21-year-old man residing in a welfare facility for people with disabilities in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture, was assaulted by a m...
Actor Noburo Takachi on Murder of Disabled Daughter: “I Feel a Discrimination Between Lives”
Referring to “the case in which a mother killed her daughter with a severe disability,” Noburo Takachi mentioned the incident that occurred in Mobara,...
Ex-Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Referred to Prosecutors Over Railroad Crossing Death
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on the 10th referred a 46-year-old former employee of the disability support facility Takinogawa Gakuen Adult...
3/11 Earthquake 15 Years On
Many evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture cite anxiety about a lack of medical services as a reason for their hesitation to return to their hometowns de...
Chiba Mother Arrested Over Alleged Drowning Death of Disabled Daughter
A mother has been arrested on suspicion of killing her daughter by drowning her face in water at a home in Mobara City, Chiba Prefecture. The suspect...
Ancient Verona Arena boosts accessibility for Paralympics opening ceremony
The ancient Verona Arena that hosted the opening ceremony for Friday’s Milan Cortina Paralympic Games has been undergoing a raft of accessibility chan...
Sounds of The Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics Beginning
The Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympic Games kicked off Friday with an opening ceremony at an amphitheater in Verona, a UNESCO world heritage city in no...
Japan heads to Winter Paralympic Games with biggest team in decades
Japan’s biggest Winter Paralympic delegation in decades will take part in the Milan Cortina Games from Friday, with competitors in multiple events tip...
Tokyo High Court Upholds Unification Church Dissolution Order
Tokyo High Court on Wednesday 4th March upheld a district court order for the dissolution of the controversial religious group Unification Church, str...
Hiroshima Revokes Designation of 7 Facilities for Disabled Children; Fraudulent Claims Affect 214
Hiroshima Prefecture announced on Feb. 27 that it will revoke the designation of four facilities in Etajima City, including “Popo Etajima,” which serv...
Kitakyushu to Revoke Designation of Disability Support Facility Over Fraudulent Benefit Claims
Kitakyushu City said it will revoke the designation of a Type B continuous employment support facility for people with disabilities in Yahatanishi War...
Saitama Social Worker Reports Company for Overcharging Disabled Residents, is Sued for Stealing Documents
Tomoyoshi Aoki, a 51-year-old certified social worker from Saitama Prefecture, says he discovered that his former employer, ‘Nihon Remake’, which oper...
Western Japan Disability Nurses have Difficulties but “no regrets” in Reporting “culture” of Abuse
Three nurses, including Ryusuke Asakura, a 50-year-old former staff member at a municipal support center for people with severe disabilities in Sakai,...
Japan Eyes Strong Showing at Milano-Cortina Paralympics with One Week to Go
With one week to go until the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games open on March 6, Japan is preparing for its 11th appearance at the Winter Pa...
Ibaraki Care Worker Who Reported Abuse Warns Legal Battle May Deter Future Whistleblowers
A care worker who reported the sexual abuse of a female resident at a disability group home in Ibaraki Prefecture has warned that the toll of his subs...
Almost Three Years After Ableist Remarks, Nagoya Aims to Finalize Barrier-Free Policy for Castle Keep
Nagoya City held a meeting with disability groups and others regarding the wooden reconstruction of the main keep of Nagoya Castle. On February 11th t...
Fired After Reporting Abuse, Tokyo Care Worker Awarded 4.8 Million Yen
A former support staff member at a disability workshop in Kodaira, Tokyo, who was dismissed after reporting alleged abuse by colleagues and a senior e...
Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Says They Were Fired After Reporting Abuse
A Tokyo woman who worked as a support staff member at a workshop for people with disabilities said she witnessed repeated physical and verbal abuse of...
Regenerative Medicine Clinic in Tokyo Gets Business Improvement Order
Japan’s health ministry ordered a clinic in Tokyo to improve its operations on Friday 20th February over its violations of the law on safety in regene...
Two Arrested Over Alleged Assault of 17-Year-Old at Aichi Disability Home
Two male staff members in their 20s have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a 17-year-old male resident at a facility for people with disabilities...
Japan Federation of Bar Associations calls Welfare Ministry’s Disability Pension report “clearly unreasonable”
The Fukushi Shimbun reported on February 19th that the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) said Jan. 30 it had submitted a statement to the He...
Japan Top Court Rules Work-Bar Provision Unconstitutional
Japan’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday 18th February that a provision in the now-scrapped security services law that disqualified adult guardianship...
Japan’s Children and Families Agency Considers “Children’s Homes”
Japan’s Children and Families Agency has begun considering the creation of small-scale residential facilities tentatively called “Children’s Homes” fo...
Mother Ordered to Pay 30 Million Yen in Abuse Damages Causing Mental Disorders
A lawsuit in which a 36-year-old man from Kanagawa Prefecture sought damages from his mother, claiming that abuse he suffered as a child caused him to...
Japan’s new guidelines warn employers not to mislabel access requests as harassment
The guidelines on harassment by customers make clear that employers must take care not to interpret requests for reasonable accommodation from persons...
Japan Approves Muscular Dystrophy Drug Price of 304 Million Yen
An advisory panel to Japan’s health minister decided Friday to allow public health insurance coverage for a gene therapy for muscular dystrophy beginn...
Japan’s ‘first visit date’ rule shows gaps in disability pension system
A Tokyo man in his 50s who was forced to quit his IT job after developing Parkinson’s disease faced difficulties obtaining Japan’s disability pension...
85% of Families of People with Disabilities in Japan Anxious About Future “After Parents Are Gone”
The online survey was conducted by the Nippon Foundation last October targeting 2,500 family members of people with disabilities. Overall, 36.2% said...
Aichi Prefecture’s Disability Certificate “irregularities”
While assigned to the center, a 27-year-old male employee from the Toyokawa Public Health Center issued certificates without obtaining the required ap...
Chiba disability group home resident dies; former representative arrested
Police in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, plan to arrest a man in his 30s who formerly headed a disability group home on suspicion of assault resulting in...
Japan Lower House Election 2026: Barrier Free Japan’s ‘Two Yen Worth’ Analysis
As of the evening of February 9th, according to Jiji Press, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a historic landslide victory in Sunday's H...
LDP Wins Two-Thirds Majority, Sanseito and Team Mirai Gain Seats
Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday’s general election, delivering a stron...
Japan Lower House Election 2026: LDP Certain to Win Majority
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is set to win a majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday's election, a...
Less than a month until the Paralympics, Japan finalizes Milan–Cortina preparations
With less than a month to go until the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games open on March 6, Japan is stepping up final preparations for a camp...
Ahead of Election JIP, Sanseito Call for Cap on Foreigners in Japan
The Japan Innovation Party and Sanseito have called for setting a cap on the percentage of foreign nationals in Japan’s population in their promises t...
Tokyo Court to Rule on Unification Church Dissolution Order on March 4
The Tokyo High Court will decide on March 4 whether to back a lower court’s order for the Unification Church to disband itself, informed sources said...