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Download full textBoeltzig-Brown, Heike – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2017
In 2013, the Japanese government passed antidiscrimination legislation that, starting in April 2016, requires all national and public institutions of higher education (IHEs) to accommodate students with disabilities. The legislative mandate to ensure that higher education is accessible to students with disabilities, coupled with growth in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Disability Discrimination, Disabilities
Kondo, Takeo; Takahashi, Tomone; Shirasawa, Mayumi – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2015
The Japanese government passed an anti-discrimination law, the Act on the Elimination of Disability Discrimination, in June 2013 (to be enforced April 2016) and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in January 2014. Prior to ratification of the CRPD, the Japanese government had begun to construct an inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Federal Legislation
Direct linkOsamu, Nagase – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
There are 130 ratifications by national governments around the world of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the United Nations in December 2006. However, Japan has yet to ratify the CRPD. The author examined the social, political, and legal context in Japan, affecting the ratification of the CRPD and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Civil Rights, Laws
Peer reviewedIson, Terence G. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1993
This article describes the Japanese quota system for the employment of people with disabilities and assesses the potential of a quota law that includes financial incentives for compliance. It concludes that laws to compel the employment of people with disabilities are unlikely to be effective and may be counterproductive. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
Peer reviewedHolland, Laura – Equity and Excellence, 1989
A Japanese psychologist and educator describes special education in Japan and the Movement for the Coeducation of the Handicapped with the Nonhandicapped in Neighborhood Schools. Influenced by mainstreaming policies in western countries, the Coeducation Movement calls for an end to handicapped student segregation and advocates student…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Change
