A series of earthquakes and aftershocks has hit Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu Island in southern Japan since 14 April, including a 6.5 magnitude tremor on 14 April, a 7.3 magnitude that hit on 16 ...

Disabled athletes fight the able-bodied in a new film that provides an outlet for five determined wrestlers to escape the prejudice they face in everyday life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Kwiyeon Ha and Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - The stabbing deaths of 19 disabled people in their sleep last July and the silence ...

OITA – A district court in southwestern Japan dismissed on Thursday a claim for damages by people with disabilities who said that the unmanned operations of stations by Kyushu Railway (JR Kyushu) ...

The government is under fire for fudging the number of disabled employees while calling on companies to hire more people with disabilities. Several prefectural governments and central government ...

On Thursday November 20, 2014, in Bayt Al-Ajdad Elderly Home in Jericho, Mr. Junya Matsuura, Japan’s Ambassador for Palestinian Affairs and Representative of Japan to the PA, and H.E. Mr. Shawqi Issa, ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher examined the development of disability identity in Japan’s disability community. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three Japanese participants ...

On July 21, 2019, Japan elected 124 out of the 245 members of the House of Councillors, the parliament's upper house. While the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost 9 seats, opposition parties ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The stabbing deaths of 19 disabled people in their sleep last July and the silence surrounding their identities are forcing Japan to grapple with its attitudes toward physically and ...