Five Year Anniversary of the Sagamihara Stabbings
July 26th 2021 marks the five year anniversary of what is now often referred to as the ‘Sagamihara Stabbings’, when in the early hours of July 26th 20...
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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 available every Friday at 6am Japan Time.
'Fuji Rock' gives high billing to musician who resigned from Tokyo 2020 for assaulting disabled
Barrier Free Japan: Keigo ‘Cornelius’ Oyamada, who confessed and apologized for forcing his classmates who had disabilities to eat their own faeces an...
Composer For The Tokyo 2020 Games Opening Ceremony Who Assaulted Disabled People Resigns
Oyamada, who was in charge of composing some of the music for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, apologized for bullying disabled classmates in the...
Composer For The Tokyo 2020 Games Apologizes For Assaulting Disabled People
“Oyamada confessed to two magazines that he bullied during his school days. In the January 1994 issue of the Japanese music magazine "Rocking On Japan...
Japan’s PM Suga thinks “It would be nice to have at least some spectators” at the Paralympic Games
“It would be nice to have at least some spectators” when the Paralympics are held from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5, Japan’s PM Suga said, adding the decision w...
Women With Disabilities In Japan Want The Tokyo 2020 Games To Be Cancelled
With the opening of the Olympic & Paralympic Games looming amid renewed fears of the spread of a new coronavirus, a group consisting of women with dis...
Vaccinations Postponed in Japan, Mudslides deprive disabled people of a workplace
Disability News Japan’s vaccine appointment in Kobe has been cancelled due to lack of supply of the vaccine: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2021/07/08/b...
Disability News Japan Will Be Vaccinated!
Your favorite maker of podcasts about disability in Japan will be vaccinated in July!
Tsu District Court to hear case of killing disabled daughter by 72 year mother with an illness
The trial in a murder case in which an elderly mother, who lived alone with her daughter who had a severe intellectual disability, will begin at the T...
Japanese Wheelchair User Votes In Diet For First Time In History
On March 26, during a session on the budget, Japanese lawmakers with disabilities were able to cast a vote in person owing to a ramp that had been bui...