tv Japans Disability Shame Al Jazeera November 8, 2019 12:32pm-1:01pm +03
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the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in so is it possible for trying to actually commit to a piece of the counting the cost on al-jazeera. when tokyo hosts the 2020 paralympics japan's most talented disabled athletes will get their shocks back and glory. but outside the stadiums is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past the japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual physical disabilities now big tips are demanding compensation what. they were i don't the one who was on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan's. protection.
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even on a rainy day sigler her looks peaceful. but in 26 days this small town near tokyo was the site of japan's biggest mass killing since world war 2. i. joined 10th i. was. about. to kashi and to kick her own news disabled son was badly injured that day in july 26th jane now the not just all. access dog and they've saved a lot on tonight by none of the oh they did something when we needed an adult day they're not our case and i'm. in the early hours of the morning with
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a knife the kill-a way matson broke into a care hard for the disabled. the famous and it is. i think it's a book right big who got big quinnell. quinnell i'm all good but. a former employee at the care home when matsu knew his way around. as he made his way through the building he stopped the disabled patients murdering 19 and injuring 27 others. after the attack he surrendered himself at a nearby police station reportedly saying it's better that the disciple would just disappear the northern assumed a day when it's a night that cutting like a mighty still $9.00 to $1.00 up close to what sunny and i don't mind on the knee so when you do undercut things i say this in the. military sense you don't need.
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to do the utility role since you don't know you there almost been a. month before his killing spree when not super resigned from his job at the care home after delivering a letter to japan's palm and. even he wrote the disabled people should be euthanized and offered to kill $470.00 of them. something on. top since it takes their time thought seche teeth a car. and i stand one coming out to get on the side judoka that. but we don't know . what it does that is in the news from my angle i'm going it's. coming up on a stage. there wasn't a football fan or saw some of the dignity on the net called the 90 who number
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standout among. the owners 1st heard about the attack through news reports. as the bodies were being taken away and the police gathered evidence from the killer's house to kick or rushed to the hospital to see her son. more got on they got. a money. and food for thought that if they. saw. joel learn. that a. car or do that's not there the. there at the there then the. kid at a. mall. there won't. see must. in the days after to cash he says the families remained in the dark.
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still not. going out more got the money to spare. who were taking. none of you can be very kind of things make a hunting with it. kazuya has a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was 1st institutionalized at 16. thing i want to show my home i'm not the bunny. i was some milk you pay. up. there doesn't mean. yes i have taken some hits because i can't because i'm on. my 2nd hole that's a condition i. state so that the more this can all.
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3 years after the attack because you has physically recovered and leaves out another care but his mother says he is still haunted by what happened call him see. it. once a month at a makeshift memorial families affected by the massacre lay flowers so that those who died can reach heaven. when a total stranger arrives at the vigil the owners are overjoyed thank all those that have received. the visitors says he had nothing to do with the incident but was so affected by what happened that he traveled an hour and a half by bus to pay his respects khaled you know not having your neck. line any
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kind of the day when they need an english dog lead to get into the saloon realizing that they not welcome. the owner is the only one of 2 families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named. to the ma do not sticky show i did sic sits in the court of law sick initiated. i know corey missing a month or so there he donated. from the institution come to the beach 7 7. although they are the only farewell.
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in 2020 tokyo will be the in the world to host the paralympic games for a 2nd time. the japanese government. crease awareness for the more than 7000000 japanese living with disabilities. i do training camp for the national team i meet long jump i. will host the next paralympic games your home country. a little more nervous. how do you start a training in high school at the time. was growing in his right arm and
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they. no longer want. one book or groping through. japan has a long history of discrimination against the disabled while the country was hosting the paralympics in 1964 people considered bentley and physically inferior would being forcibly sterilized. the eugenics protection law began after world war 2 when japan was struggling with food shortages and a ravaged economy. close to 25000 japanese citizens with sterilized over the next 4 decades 16000 of them against their will. the policy only stopped in 9096.
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for years victims have suffered in silence and shame only now a some demanding compensation but such is the stigma most do so anonymously in the northern province of her cargo. is the 1st to speak out publicly. or in this it would admit well. in this is joys of them when it. came to a new what the zoom up on the. over all of us are now my oldest and their story they will restore. in a more a daze she. says his childhood was tough he contract of polio when he was only 2 and grew up on a farm with a foster family above the noise the war most. other zumaya. mind you will be the good us who must die so will the murder more gov that will the
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one i see. when all you've been so really buddy more like oh my god there buddy. because of the we're about as you are you grow there you mean are you seeing more than 0 of the worlds. sort of up there in there with us on all 3 that even those that receive when we dare not you are in that are not on the in and that are me she in this in my it was you are it on this you. left home and spiraled into delinquency and gangs at 19 he returned to demand money from his foster father who called the police. since he was arrested and taken to nack i hospital on the losses you.
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still can get organized there on. margy with nurses you mean that the one then the see who. says to the woman all the rooms are up the amount of them being seen this didn't go on think over and then when it did the doctors or nurses say anything to congress or the kid other 3 of us you know. the whores in moscow may get on with their. lives sure doesn't. see. you the more. they're down with the horror. insists he was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness. the one mother wanted to walk by your mother would think it over but years of going to bizarre. says he witnessed other patients being taken to the
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operating room for forced sterilization surgery some as young as 14 after a year in the hospital was told that he too would have the procedure or when i didn't know he was going then what are their way out of going to their more common they start general. long course the would. call in with his you're with us how about iraq more on. how to govern there are no long term or no nuggets government i mean that of the war or us government there so when you kinds of free kind of the civil society did say i was sort of calm really almost crying this year can you tell me a little bit about what happened on the day of the operation. to the mall or the scene of the burn those are the temporary loss of are in there that there was a one no warning to show that in this hour. during this the last singer kara
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hopped on our own morals were down where we were going was to go with you we would you can go would you come here. soon afterwards he would manage to flee the hospital he got work as a taxi driver and tried to move on with his life for 57 years he kept the operation a secret from everyone including his wife records. but in 2018 when another forced sterilization case made national headlines kiko finally revealed what happened. it is. only i got an a unit only i did that another went out and the sister wanted i listen and look at that. i know you just had a negative answer you were too. thank you instructed me. and when i quit and look.
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at these lawyers office prepares his testimony for his civil case against the government in the district course they do pull him up and ask him what in. the mother tongue will give him. his lawyer has evidence from doctors confirming the scars near his growing are consistent with the sterilization procedure a little sensitive facing. this is looking at things and you know who doesn't say what when they skew the system when it's a newer one and then when i was going through the thought that i report them to what he thought. it was of all causes in this article well there's no this one assume all groupism out there nice center of the body i'm . not destroy you're in a good. regime and they were just going to disney with the us but it's how they
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were searching this. today is showing me not hospital it's only 30 minutes from his heart. i think he wants to show off. the hospital has changed over the years but the memories of his dramatic escape come flooding back. mean no credit iraq who. was on your door out there who are mad. so worried for one of boston the. other my new you know you know about a model with a bit of. common middle name where you have. the money either. when you combine the other. mystic and jamie used to work as
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a taxi driver how hard was it to drop off a patient here to work on a ride when neither risks that are going. to cause. you more and those who know is there to limit august or is there still may thing rest or. video is a review we don't mourn as a souvenir does my visit there the more i know nothing of the more people wrong i'm realizing this to fuel canyon with the strict routine of how little. you know i think you mean you know we are. the. only difference is a. well. the
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hospital declined to comment on. the new law. the government says the lives of the decided are getting better sterilization stopped in 9096 and employment courses an anti discrimination laws have been introduced. but last year a scandal revealed they lied about the number of disabled people working in their own ministry only heart of the number they claimed were employed to company culture. for. sure hey only she has struggled to get a job despite being a race and graduate of an american community college. he has duchenne muscular dystrophy a progressive genetic disorder that requires constant care. despite
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severe disability believes he has a lot to offer the workplace. i have a computer. because i cannot. buy one. if people with. know how. joe off. their fear or be. being wheelchair bound and reliant on a respirator hasn't stopped from traveling the world and with no one willing to employ him he started his own business advising the people with disabilities how to study abroad. and you know.
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i make up the way you know that. you know. when you look at that i'm all. wet or. if i want to do. something. yeah. i want to feel like walk like wall. that. sure how it feels as though japan holds him back he gets a carer a facilitator hours a day but the rest of his time must be spent in this welfare center. and while the stuff you do live best to care for people with a wide range of disabilities shoe height would rather be possible. and this is a good offense i hope it doesn't make. you know show me the way. i don't want to come here i guess i want to or or.
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it's perfect weather for a picnic. and then the room. they had to. draw was. that they got into gaza. for 2 hours the couple kara. and he basks in their love. this would be done. to hit the beginning this. time they have seen it almost all. the way it's a good enough pick to see. the you who knew you could live. in your own home alone and go up imo are a she she has. a ceiling at the missouri. i'm
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not going to. fall. for. mr owner says the attack brought them closer together the couple realized they relied too much on institutions to take care of this. they only used to visit him once a month now it's a weekly affair. going to high step up and birth to turn. him on when they were under your make that made to push on this kind of scene thought out of it all. they couldn't. because their ha. could be a loony. on the set calling us they could feel some movie something they could be able to get in the cell when the visit comes to
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an end because you have pops up with the same question again and again. you didn't want to look at the colors or the. sorry you're. going to. the family like. john doe wrong who are. good boys and the long drive home but always tough for the. right. because your noise the only ways have next wednesday i got that. right i. know i'm on my back i'm going to let me out all. right. let me go but i am
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