Ten years ago, the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home was the scene of the worst mass killing of people with disabilities in postwar Japan. At a memorial gathering soon after, a member of one of the victims' families appealed to the crowd."In this country, eugenic thinking runs deep and it is not taken for granted that every life has value simply by existing," the family member said. The remark seemed to cut to the heart of the case. The ideology of Satoshi Uematsu, the perpetrator who killed 19 and injured 26 in July 2016, was not the only problem.Whether society has truly accepted the value of …READ FULL ARTICLE
