October 3, 2006 AM :
Lecture "Measures on Disabilities in Japan : Perspectives of Persons with Disabilities"
by Mr. Onoue, Secretary General of DPI-Japan
The very first lecture conveyed such strong and important messages, being given by Mr. Onoue, Secretary General of DPI-Japan. Mr. Onoue talked about historical development of Japanese policies from the perspectives of persons with disabilities, describing it with his own experiences of challenges against the existing situations and systems and also with other actual cases.
What's equality? The importance of making the disability issues not only of the persons with disabilities but of the whole. There were a lot of themes in his lecture to think over.
He concluded his session by saying "do not unnecessarily repeat the same mistakes of Japan, learn from our errors, promote normalization and create universal designed society from now!” We had an excellent start of the 2006 training course!
http://www.jicafriends.jp/leaders/gi2006/material/lecture/1003a/01.html