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tv   Japans Disability Shame  Al Jazeera  November 11, 2019 8:33am-9:01am +03

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yes kill i have strength i have a story of carnage a lot of the fear is real. passion. and it's very serious just. when tokyo hosts the 2020 paralympics japan's most talented disabled athletes will get their shocks at night and glory. but outside the stadiums is a society that still struggles to accept people who are disabled in the past and the japanese citizens were forcibly sterilized for having intellectual disability now the victims are demanding compensation what.
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i am the one who lost on this episode of one a one a we make the people fighting to overcome japan's. protection. even on a rainy day. looks peaceful. but in 26 states this small town near tokyo was the size of japan's biggest mass killing since world war 2. a good. thing. to kashi and to kick her own news disabled son was badly injured that day in july 26th jane now the not best all. access dog and i've saved for that one tonight by
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the end of it they did something when we did an adult day there not a case on it. in the early hours of the morning with a knife the killer way mutts or broke into a care home for the disabled. was 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 not sue 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 assume they who knew that cutting like
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a mighty seal $9.00 to $1.00 up close them with sony and then amanda. so when you do undercut things i say this in the. military sense the need. 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. he sent someone more thought since it takes their time thought. well on facts 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 i'm going it's. coming up on as the.
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subsidies are you know. there was an overall tone on. some of the dignity on a new unit called the 90 who now understand. 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 keep her rushed to the hospital to see her son because we are all got on they got there now i'm on my stuff. and money. and. before. that it. is a. song. joel learn. they. do that's not they do the. there at all and they all there then one kid at a. mall. won't. see
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my stuff. in the days after the cash he says the families remained in the dark. don't know. going out more about the money stare. over the ticking. none of you can be 30 i know since i make a 100 it. kazuya has a profound intellectual disability epilepsy and autism he was 1st institutionalized at 16 thing i want to show my own will not the bunny. i want some milk you pay. up. there doesn't mean. saying yes i have taken some hits
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because i can't because. i mean my 2nd hole that's a condition i. state so that the more this can all. 3 years after the attack has physically recovered and leaves out another one but his mother says he is still haunted by what happened call him. 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 of us that he was there. to visit a says he had nothing to do with the incident but was so affected by what happened
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that he traveled an hour and a half by bus to pay his respects how little not having won it and then khomeini how good they won a. victory that is the flu will really have a mouthful welcome to. the only one of 2 families to speak publicly about the attack the rest of the victims have never been named. no cause or couldn't even know could the ma do the knots think it's only that sick sits in the to do call to law sick initiated. and all corey is thing i'm outta. there either later. so they. come to the beach 7 7 7. they're all going to be awesome they're the only news
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farewell a new york. 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 bit more nervous.
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how do you start a training in high school at the time. was growing in his right arm and doctors considering amputation. at all. 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 in the hall.
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you will pay for your little quibble that. they. call 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 68000 of them against their will. the policy
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only stopped in 9096. for years the 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. or in this important net well that's the dream we are 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
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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 the one i see. when all you've been so good you have to leave but he might call my what their body. called because of the web as you are you grow there you mean are you seeing more than 0 of the worlds. there you you never thought. for me that even those that it is here when you dare not you are in that are not on the in then that are me she in this you made the world you are than this you. left home and spiraled into delinquency and gangs at 19 he returned to demand money from his foster
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father who called the police. since he was arrested and taken to knock at hospital on the losses you. can talk with. their on. margy with the r.c.c. being that the one then the see who's a were. supposed to do the woman all the rooms are of that amount of them being seen this didn't go on think over and then when it did the doctors or nurses say anything to you. get on with your others you know. the whores in moscow may get away with their. theories soon moon is sure of us he. swore you called them or. they're done with the horror. insists he was never formally diagnosed with
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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 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 did you know he was in there will have a lot of them we have got and there are more condoms that general. carnal pleasure without that's what i have. more on. how to govern there are no long term or no nuggets government i mean that are the who will always come there so when you can just a 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 are. sort of
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the way and those are the very very last cigar in their myth that there was a war no warning to show that in this room. during this the last singer carol hopped on a morals would then when there was no one was to go with you good morning you can go with you. 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 rego. 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 and know what that and sister wanted i listen and look at
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that. i know you just said unable to they actually were to. stop. and look like that with a look. at these lawyers office prepares his testimony for his civil case against the government in the district course they took too much in the from. 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 something that i think you know now doesn't say what they say in the season when it's a newer one and then when i was going through the thought on the part of the what he thought. or those of all causes it is terrible but there was no this is one of those who were more crude their knees center of the body i'm
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. not this. regime and they were 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. mino carded iraq boom oh. oh oh oh you are. born. so when. the one of boston the. other my new you know you know that a model would be who was going to. come
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a 1000000 or more you have. the money either. when you combine yoga mystic and jamie used to work as a taxi driver how hard was it to drop off a patient here to work on a ride when neither risk that are. you married too soon of their to live in august or is there still may thing wester. of earlier is a review we don't mourn as a souvenir because my visit there the more i know nothing of the more people wrong i'm realizing this too funeral can be only the things to fit in with how little. you know i think you mean you know we are.
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well more than. one you. know. the hospital declined to comment on. the new group the government says the lives of the decided are getting better sterilization stopped in 9096 and employment course is 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 half the number they claimed were employed to give company culture. and. look good for people with good i'm. sure high on issue has struggled to get a job despite being
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a race and graduate of an american community college. he has duchenne muscular dystrophy a progressive genetic disorder that requires constant care. despite his severe disability high believes he has a lot to offer the workplace. that i have a computer. because i cannot do anything by welfare. if people with disability now have a job of what they 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.
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america you know that. 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. you know that big thing. high feels as though japan holds him back he gets a care offensive in tain hours a day but the rest of his time must be spent in this welfare same time. and while the staff you do their best to care for people with a wide range of disabilities shoe height would rather be possible to go. and those
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who they are fed up with it doesn't make it. you know show me the way. i don't want to come 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. fail. because you know and then watch it and the want to hear much about it oh. and then which. i walk a fine i do believe.
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it's wednesday and on the other side of town the visiting cousin in his care home. it's perfect weather for a picnic but they're on their way to room. they had to board. wrong for the hunger must. have been there and it got me thinking was that. for 2 hours the couple and his character on kazuya and he bossed in the love on this would be done it's going to hit the beginning this summer. always look. good in the big. be you who are near you. in your own home alone and i'm no great she
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she has. a ceiling at home is when. i go. 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. in on when they were. made finished another. thought out of their goal. they couldn't. because there ha.
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couldn't be you who need. not on the same corner. could feel smooth. when the visit comes to an end because you have pipes up with the same question again and again or is it. one of. the colors or the little card you're. going to go. or are those some of. the family like. john zone. good boys and the long drive home but always tough for the owners. because you're nervous the only way is have next wednesday i got there. right.
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