Disability News Japan

Tokyo’s Toshima Ward Revokes Designation of Deaf Child Daycare Centre Over 58.3 Million Yen Fraud, Falsified Staff Reports

60% of Workers in Japan with Mental or Developmental Disabilities Do Not Disclose Disability

Novel Alzheimer’s Therapies Given to Less than 20 Percent of Applicants in Japan

Disabled Service Users at Employment Facility Exploiting Benefit Loopholes “felt something like guilt”

Nearly 500 elderly killed by family caregivers in Japan in Fiscal Years 2006-2024

Japan Health Minister Warns about Rising Measles Cases

Survey Reveals 60% of Families of People with Disabilities in Japan Feel They are at Care “Limit”

“We’d like you to resign”: Worker in Japan fired 4 days after revealing autism

Shindo 5 Earthquake in Eastern Japan April 1st

Wakayama Fails to Hire Statutory Number of People with Disabilities

Osaka revokes licenses of four Kizuna Holdings employment support facilities over excess disability subsidies

Japan Sees Fewest-Ever Suicides in 2025

Students with Developmental Disabilities in Japan Rise to 12,000 Nationwide

Miyazaki City Day Care Centre for Disabled Children Improperly Claimed 14 Million Yen

Tottori Accepts Liability in Death of Disabled Teen at Care Facility

227,000 people in Japan have ‘Higher Brain Dysfunction’

People with disabilities in Japan face persistent barriers to housing and accommodation

Japan’s new guidelines aim to reduce long lines of women at public toilets

Book Review: Alone in Japan by Tom Feiling

Shikoku Island Town Trials New Pedestrian Crossing for Visually Impaired

Withdrawal of Appeal against Death Sentence Found Valid in KyoAni Case

Oita Prefecture receives notebooks to assist hearing-impaired in emergencies

Patient Dies, Two Critical after Injections at Hospital near Tokyo

Japan Ends Milano-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games with 100th Medal & Muraoka Japan’s Most Decorated Winter Paralympian

“Stop your damn crying”: Guilty Verdict for Staff Member in Abuse Case at Hyogo Facility for Disabled

Actor Noburo Takachi on Murder of Disabled Daughter: “I Feel a Discrimination Between Lives”

Ex-Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Referred to Prosecutors Over Railroad Crossing Death

3/11 Earthquake 15 Years On

Chiba Mother Arrested Over Alleged Drowning Death of Disabled Daughter

Ancient Verona Arena boosts accessibility for Paralympics opening ceremony

Sounds of The Milano-Cortina Winter Paralympics Beginning

Japan heads to Winter Paralympic Games with biggest team in decades

Tokyo High Court Upholds Unification Church Dissolution Order

Hiroshima Revokes Designation of 7 Facilities for Disabled Children; Fraudulent Claims Affect 214

Kitakyushu to Revoke Designation of Disability Support Facility Over Fraudulent Benefit Claims

Saitama Social Worker Reports Company for Overcharging Disabled Residents, is Sued for Stealing Documents

Western Japan Disability Nurses have Difficulties but “no regrets” in Reporting “culture” of Abuse

Japan Eyes Strong Showing at Milano-Cortina Paralympics with One Week to Go

Ibaraki Care Worker Who Reported Abuse Warns Legal Battle May Deter Future Whistleblowers

Almost Three Years After Ableist Remarks, Nagoya Aims to Finalize Barrier-Free Policy for Castle Keep

Fired After Reporting Abuse, Tokyo Care Worker Awarded 4.8 Million Yen

Tokyo Disability Facility Worker Says They Were Fired After Reporting Abuse

Regenerative Medicine Clinic in Tokyo Gets Business Improvement Order

Two Arrested Over Alleged Assault of 17-Year-Old at Aichi Disability Home

Japan Federation of Bar Associations calls Welfare Ministry’s Disability Pension report “clearly unreasonable”

Japan Top Court Rules Work-Bar Provision Unconstitutional

Japan’s Children and Families Agency Considers “Children’s Homes”

Mother Ordered to Pay 30 Million Yen in Abuse Damages Causing Mental Disorders

Japan’s new guidelines warn employers not to mislabel access requests as harassment

Japan Approves Muscular Dystrophy Drug Price of 304 Million Yen