90% in Japan feel discrimination against disabled exists: survey

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1. Even if someone doesn’t have a disability and is labeled with something they will be discriminated.

2. And foreigners also

3. experienced this 1st hand

   even though we are native

   taxi will not stop for you if you are in a wheelchair

   yokohama tokyo

   countryside is not as bad

4. 90% recognize there is a problem, 90% wont do a thing about it until Shogun commands to do so explicitly. Nothing to see here, just ye good olde Japanese society here.

5. The fact that we had the Sagamihara mass murder and it was in the news for about a day says a lot. The families apparently did not want the victims names released, which I can respect but worry it was mostly because they felt they should be ashamed of having a disabled person in their family.

   In a lot of other countries I expect we would have had several programs highlighting the victims lives and their humanity etc.

   I’m not saying it is entirely a disabled issue – when there is almost any “uncomfortable” story it is swept under the carpet very quickly.

   Edit: here is an article I found that puts it far better than me!

   http://www.reuters.com/article/japan-disabled-idUSL3N1BS0AV