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Disability in Japan

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In Japan, a person with a disability is defined as: "a person whose daily life or life in society is substantially limited over the long term due to a physical disability or mental disability".^[1]^: 125 Japan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on 20 January 2014.

^ Iwakuma, Miho (2003). "Being Disabled in Modern Japan: A Minority Perspective". In Kramer, Eric Mark (ed.). The emerging monoculture: assimilation and the "model minority". Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 9780275973124.

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