I could not read your NY Times Post but I loved your share about your experience. I agree unless you have had an experience with being incapacitated in any way it is hard to understand the needs of those who are. Perhaps you can email me a link to your article. I always love reading your
Hi Carol, Thank you so much for reading and for your kind words! Here is a copy of my letter:
Re “Games Draw Focus to Treatment of Japan’s Disabled” (news article, Sept. 4):
Thanks for the article spotlighting Japan’s efforts to make Tokyo more accessible to people with disabilities in the years leading up to the Paralympic Games.
It took me back to when I lived there in the 1990s and fractured a metatarsal bone. I had to use crutches, which meant that the otherwise excellent transportation system was off limits to me.
It is exciting to read about all that Japan has done to make its society more inclusive. Yes, there is still so much to do (here, too, in the United States, by the way), but it’s important to take a moment to celebrate the progress. The fact that Japanese society is rapidly aging makes these structural changes all the more essential.
I could not read your NY Times Post but I loved your share about your experience. I agree unless you have had an experience with being incapacitated in any way it is hard to understand the needs of those who are. Perhaps you can email me a link to your article. I always love reading your
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Hi Carol, Thank you so much for reading and for your kind words! Here is a copy of my letter:
Re “Games Draw Focus to Treatment of Japan’s Disabled” (news article, Sept. 4):
Thanks for the article spotlighting Japan’s efforts to make Tokyo more accessible to people with disabilities in the years leading up to the Paralympic Games.
It took me back to when I lived there in the 1990s and fractured a metatarsal bone. I had to use crutches, which meant that the otherwise excellent transportation system was off limits to me.
It is exciting to read about all that Japan has done to make its society more inclusive. Yes, there is still so much to do (here, too, in the United States, by the way), but it’s important to take a moment to celebrate the progress. The fact that Japanese society is rapidly aging makes these structural changes all the more essential.
Loren Edelson, Montebello, NY.