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tv   Japans Disability Shame  Al Jazeera  November 10, 2019 7:32pm-8:01pm +03

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when tokyo hosts the 2020 paralympics japan's most talented disabled athletes will get their shocks at bank and glory. but outside the stadiums is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past thousands of japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual or physical disability now victims are demanding compensation of what. they were the one who was on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan's bit of protection.
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even on a rainy day such about her looks peaceful. but in 26 states this small town near tokyo was the site of japan's biggest mass killing since world war 2. a good. job didn't pay. much chickenhawk. 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 her that's on tonight by none of it though they did something when we did an adult day there not a case on it. in the early hours of the morning with
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a knife the killer went nuts or broke into a care home for the disabled. the theme of who. 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 why matsu knew his way around. as he made his way through the building he stabbed 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 they who knew that cutting like a mighty seal $9.00 to $1.00 up close to me to me and then amanda. so when you do undercut things i say this in the. military sense but.
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then you can 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 that disabled people should be euthanized and offered to kill $470.00 of them. he sent someone. thought 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 at this point i think isn't it but not mr mandel. going into. coming out on a state. subsidy turning on. him as an overall phone or. some other degree on a new unit called the 90 who now understand. the owners 1st heard
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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 there now i'm wearing my stand in. a money. and before. that it. is a. song. joel learn. that a. car or do that's not that of the. they're at all of their them over to my kid at a. mall. there won't. see much. in the days after the cash he says the families remained in the dark
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so i don't know how. slowly sorting out more got the money there. were ticking. none of my cunny very kind of things make a hunting with dick. kazuya has a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was 1st institutionalized at 16 saying i want to show my own will not the pony. i want some milk you pay. up. there doesn't mean. to say yes i have taken some hits because i can't because i'm on. my 2nd home a better condition i. state so that the more this can all.
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3 years after the attack 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. others 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 how long that have been on it and then the line
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any color there when they need an english dog glad to see that is the flu will roll on are they not the welcome of. the owners or only one of 2 families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named to. even local the law do not stick each only did sick sits in the court of law sick initiated. i know corey missing a month or so a day he donated. so they. come to the beach 7 7. they're all going to be awesome they're. farewell and.
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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 hopes the crease awareness for the more than 7000000 japanese living with disability. i do training camp for the national team i meet long jump. 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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doctors considering amputation. but if i feel guilty. with no longer spread. paralympic career is taking off in leaps and. after winning bronze in long jump at the asian power against haji moves alternate goal is to compete at the summer olympics. alone you can't. win for your fiddle couple that.
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they. no longer want a phone book or groping through. a middle of the last in. 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 68000 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 as 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. knowing this is a warden it. in this is joys of them when they. can do a new what the zoom up on the. over all of us are now my oldest and their story they will be restored. 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 but then always there while most. other zumaya. mind you will be the good us who must die so will the murder more cover that will
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the one i see. so i know it's been really a while but he might come i could do it there but he. called because of the web as you are there you mean are you seeing more of us here of the world. they're in there with us i know for me that even though sad it is here when you then i see you are in that are not on the in then that are me she in this in my head with you are a thunder seal. 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 knock at hospital on the losses you. can talk with.
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their on. barge of a new r.c.s. you mean that the one then they see who's a go. says the to the woman all the rooms are up that amount of them being seen this didn't go on being color and then when it did the doctors or nurses say anything to congress or the kid on the theory of a zinger. the hordes of marsala may get on with their. lives sure doesn't. see. for you the more. they're done 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 but a bizarre. says he witnessed other patients being taken to the operating room for
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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 god and they're more companies that general. conway. as have i have. more on. how to govern there are no i want more no nuggets government i mean that are the who are always government there so when you kind of free kind of visible signs they say are 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 them our. citizens were and those are the temporary loss of our in their midst that there was a one no warning to show that in this room or in town this is the last thing
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a camera hopped on the models would then when there was no one was to go with you when you can go would you come here. soon afterwards managed 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 record. but in 20 i changed one another for sterilisation case made national headlines finally revealed what happened. when only i doubt it then with unifil only i doubted that the number one thought that an sr. i know you just had a negative they actually were to. stop. and look like that with a look. at his lawyers office prepares his testimony for his
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civil case against the government in the district course and they took them up in the thing that. the mother tongue pulled divorcing right off. 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 doesn't see what they see. the most of the season when it's a newer one and then when i was going through the thought that i report them to what he thought. was of all causes it is terrible but others know this is one of those who will more groupism on their knees center of the body and. not this. regime and they were
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just laying down recently with the u.s. but it's how they were searching this. today is showing me not car 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 boom oh. oh oh oh oh you are there. so. so one of boston the. other my new you know you know about a model with a bit of. common minimum 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 patients here to work on a ride when neither risk that are. you married too soon as they're too little august or is there still may thing west are. very happy. with you we don't mourn as a souvenir because my visit there the more i know nothing of the more wrong i'm realizing this to fuel economy on with a big blow for tim of how little. you know i think you mean you know we are. the. only difference is a. continued status in there as well this. the
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hospital declined to comment on key. group the government says the law of the decided against. sterilization stopped in 9096 and employment quotas 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. company culture. for. sure hey only she has struggled to get a job despite being a racing graduate of an american community college. he has duchenne muscular dystrophy a progressive genetic disorder that requires constant care. despite
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the severe disability believes he has a lot to offer the workplace. i have. because i cannot. if people. know how. joe off. they fear. being wheelchair bound and reliant on a respirator hasn't stopped from travelling the world and with no one willing to employ him he started his own business advising other people with disabilities how to study abroad. and.
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i make up the word there want you to wall when you do a little bit of will. whenever i. actually. want to do from face. yeah even though. i want to do something much more like wall. that. 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 their best to care for people with a wide range of disabilities shoe high would rather be possible of the wider world . and those who they are fed up a bit differently if. you know show me the way. i don't want to come
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here i guess i want to or or. anything. if you could be out of your chair and out of your rest. for one day what would you do. i. have. that question but. you know. that and the want to hear much of it. and then which. i walk a fine i do believe. it's wednesday and on the other side of town the visiting cousin.
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it's perfect weather for a picnic. and they want to go. they head to ward. off on one or the other must. have had a right to go into gaza. for 2 hours the couple kara. and he basks in their love. this would be done. at the beginning yes. they have seen it almost all. the way it's a good enough big talk. to you who knew you could live. in your own home alone and go up imo she. had i see you're going to miss me.
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i'm not going to. miss to owners 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. to her struggle to. turn. him on when they were. not made to finish to another town that's going all. out of his will. they couldn't. because there ha. couldn't be you who need keith you could have done this courting us. could feel smooth could. when the visit comes to an end because you
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have pops up with the same question again and again. we're not going to the coliseum with this little card your. going to. the family my. own. 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 i've already got me but i'm going to be going to the home on.
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