Work and Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Japan page 1
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October 15, 2007
Hiroshi Ueno

My business career in disability world

1987 Encounter with JICA Leaders of Persons with Disabilities Course
1988 Secretariat of Rehabilitation International World Congress
1989 Tokyo Colony, sheltered workshops of persons with physical disabilities
1993 Secretariat of Okinawa Conference to launch the First Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities
1994 Bottles Recycling Center, a sheltered workshop for persons with intellectual disability and psychiatric disability

Bottles Recycling Center

Users: 30 persons with intellectual disability and 30 persons with psychiatric disability
Business turn over in 2006: 116 million yen (1 million USD)
Average of User's monthly wages in 2006: 30,000 yen