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Osamu, 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
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Ison, 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