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 ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed the Japanese version of the community-based rehabilitation indicators (CBR-Is), originally created by the World Health Organization to assess ...

Today, on December l', 2014, the signing ceremony was held in the Representative Office of Japan to the PA in Ramallah for the project for "Enhancing the Communal Support for People with Disabilities ...

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 ...

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 ...