Elderly and Disabled Woman in Mie Prefecture Banned from Using Car for “overuse”

A woman, aged in her 80s, lives in the city of Suzuka in western Japan's Mie Prefecture. She has an artificial bladder due to cancer and so is unable to work. Her son, with whom she lived before he passed away, suffered from an intractable disease and required canes to walk. Both had disability certificates. The woman had been receiving welfare since August 2019, but in September 2022, the payments abruptly stopped. Subsequent district and high court rulings accepted the mother and son's claims, and ordered the city to rescind its decision, although the city appealed the ruling. Episode Notes: ‘Elderly and Disabled Woman in Mie Banned from Using Car for “overuse” ’: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2025/05/11/elderly-and-disabled-woman-in-mie-banned-from-using-car-for-overuse/