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Japanese Communist Party Dietmembers on August 9 visited the Shiobara Visual Disabilities Institution, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities in Shiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture, which the government plans to close down. The facility provides persons who had lost their sight with training to help them resume their place in society. They can study to obtain licenses for massage, acupuncture, or moxa cautery. The JCP representatives also had discussions with members of a local association calling for the continuation of the center, who expressed that the facility is an indispensable facility for visually challenged people. They said that although the government claims that its closure is due to the reduction of the number of users, many of those who need its services had to give them up because of the law to gassist self-supporth of the disabled, which requires them to pay more for services. |
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