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Why has Japan's massacre of disabled gone unnoticed? For answers, look to the past

  • Written by Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
imageIs there an ongoing ambivalence toward people living with disabilities?James Emery, CC BY

On July 26, 2016 a man wielding a knife broke into Tsukui Yamayuriena, a home for the disabled outside of Tokyo and brutally murdered 19 people as they slept, while injuring another 26. Afterwards, he turned himself in to a local police station, with the...

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