Treatment of the Disabled?

How are the disabled and deformed treated in Japan? Are students with physical, but not mental, difficulties mainstreamed in the education system? Does Japanese society tend to exclude those with missing limbs?

I don't know about the school system or if dramas are accurate, but it seems tough compared to what we have here. Like in Beautiful life, they have access problems for wheelchairs and stuff like that.

I know they are actively working on robots and other apparels to help the disabled and elderly, but as to their integration into society, I have no idea.

i could swear we already have a thread on this... yet i can't find it.. :headscratch:

Might have been merged with another thread. JE?

ill look again when i get home... gotta pack up for the day.

I tried searching with various key words with regular search and google, but can't find anything.

wierd, maybe it I was thinking of that deleted thread...

I find this subject very interesting. I use a wheelchair, and I really wonder if by some miracle I ever get to visit Japan, how I would find access.

It's not too bad where I live in England, but there's still places I can't go because of steps and no ramp, etc.


Slightly off the subject - are there many other disabled people on Jdorama.com?

Keps wrote:Slightly off the subject - are there many other disabled people on Jdorama.com?

There's lots if you consider those who are mentally disabled. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
There's lots if you consider those who are mentally disabled. :beaten:

Ouch! :hehe:

krim wrote:wierd, maybe it I was thinking of that deleted thread...

perhaps you are reminded of the burakumin discussion regarding outcasts in japanese society....dunno tho'

Tu_triky wrote:perhaps you are reminded of the burakumin discussion regarding outcasts in japanese society....dunno tho'

That's what I was thinkin' as well.

probably...

Do they need an indoor wheelchair? 'caus the wheel touch the ground outside. I don't remember Beautiful life that much.

tabana wrote:Do they need an indoor wheelchair? 'caus the wheel touch the ground outside. I don't remember Beautiful life that much.

in beautiful life kyoko's character had a collapsable wheelchair that you could "break down" with quick release levers...

What disability does the main character have in Beautiful Life? I've not been able to find out exactly what it is.

something like spinal degeneration... it's been a while since i saw it.

krim wrote:something like spinal degeneration... it's been a while since i saw it.

yeah i felt like it was some sort of neuromuscular degeneration....they never gave her condition a name.....sheesh, that was a sad dorama.....

Something like that. I didn't even remember Kimutaku was in it. It was good. Check out the ratings: Ep 11: 41.3%. :shocked:

Tu_triky wrote:

in beautiful life kyoko's character had a collapsable wheelchair that you could "break down" with quick release levers...

I see. Thanks.

tabana wrote:Something like that. I didn't even remember Kimutaku was in it. It was good. Check out the ratings: Ep 11: 41.3%. :shocked:

I see. Thanks.

i think that's the single highest rated ep from a popular dorama, not including taigas of course.