May 29, 2007:
Visit:
Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Regular Private Corporations
(Yokogawa Electric Co.)
Training Report - Vocational Rehabilitation Course 2007
We visited Yokogawa Electric Corporation and its exceptional subsidiary Yokogawa Foundry Corporation to learn about the employment of persons with disabilities in both open labor market and the special affiliated company.
In the morning Ms. Hirata from the human resource department gave us a brief outline on the company. Then she introduced JICA participants to Yokogawa's original vocational aptitude tests and they tried some of them. Some participants started the test before instruction or others gave it up without trying very hard. As you can easily imagine, they were all judged disqualified.
Lecture material : http://www.jicafriends.jp/vocational/pdf/v2007lecture0529.pdf
They had an opportunity to meet two employees with disabilities who work in the open labor market. Mr. Hareyama became a wheelchair user when he was a high school student. All JICA participants were very much impressed by his personal history.
In the afternoon she showed us around the company to observe how effectively persons with intellectual disabilities can work. JICA participants could understand even persons with severe disabilities can work well if they have adequate working environment.
