Notes from the Obstacle Course Dr. Michael Peckitt The doors slid open on the nearly vacant subway car and a mass of passengers piled in. All the available seats were filed in a wild flurry. Well, almost all. People either spurned the empty seat or ignored it as if it Read more…
The suggestion by a newly appointed Ibaraki education board member has elicited online outrage. According to the member, the administration should encourage more prenatal screening so that the “burden” of disabled children can be alleviated from the parents. Chieko Hasegawa, the vice president of Tokyo based gallery Nichido, made the Read more…
Recently a new program was launched that aims to reduce the need of nursing care amongst the elderly in Japan. The program was created last June by the Kiyose municipal government in western Tokyo. The program is exclusively targeted towards seniors and includes karaoke exercises, held once a week at Read more…
Notes from the Obstacle Course Dr. Michael Peckitt She experiences the small daily shock of reentry that every foreigner in Tokyo knows. A sudden, pulse-quickening awareness of the obvious: Here I am, in Japan. Every morning it takes her by surprise – the sudden consciousness of profound difference… Even after Read more…
The Japanese government is launching a new program aimed at reducing the burden on caregivers and enabling elderly people to live more independently. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry intends to create around 10 national centers in 2016, which will aid the development of nursing care robots that can meet Read more…
Notes from the Obstacle Course Dr. Michael Peckitt I see it as a twilight genre between the night of confession and the daylight of criticism. The“I” with which I shall occupy myself will not be the “I” that relates back strictly to myself, but something else, some residue, that remains Read more…