Masahiro Kono, an official at the Fukuoka Labor Bureau, after it was revealed that in 2012, the bureau urged high schools in Fukuoka Prefecture to require any job-seeking, graduating students with epilepsy to submit their family doctors' comments on their disease to local job-placement offices. (Mainichi Shimbun)
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borscht
Perhaps idiot Kono doesn't understand the meaning of require. That's being polite. I'm sure the Fuk Labor Bureau thought that if they just urged high schools to snitch on their graduates that later they (the Fuk Lab Bur) could say
Thereby avoiding all responsibility; just as they hoped. Do they also urge high schools to require students with HIV, polio, and other diseases to reveal their medical history? Does the Fuk Labor Bur realize that Japan is in the 1950s when it comes to diseases like cancer & epilepsy? i.e. Shame on the victim Oooh, keep away. Unclean! Unclean! In other words, the Fuk Labo Bureau are idiots.
Cos
What was the intention ? Workers are asked to pass medical check ups for that reason, they give the information to doctors only. Doctors that are bound by medical secret. But that's surely not the business of "local job-placement offices" .
Probie
If they "required" them to do so, that is forcing...
Frungy
Discrimination at its most rampant. And total paranoia too.
Novenachama
Mental health information should never be disclosed without consumer's consent period, unless it is required by law due to a statue or court-ordered warrant or when appropriate to notify authorities about victims of abuse, neglect or domestic violence and last of all for identifying or locating a suspect or missing person and when necessary to prevent or lessen serious and imminent threat to a person or the public. In the end confidentiality is necessary to develop the trust and confidence important for a therapeutic relationship between consumer and providers. Thus people should be entitled to receive mental health services with the expectation that information about them will be treated with confidentiality by persons providing services.
Lowly
Sorry, feeling jaded today--
I effin hate the j-apology where they say they were sorry but also that actually they weren't doing what they were doing, so really they are just sorry that you misunderstood them. Which is not an apology and not responsible. I understand the human need to run away and protect yourself, but when you've lost your battle and it's time to turn and face the music, then do it all the way and face the d*mn music. Stop running at that point.
I know it happens elsewhere and I know it doesn't always happen here. (But it happens so often, and especially w/ relation to anything w/ foreigners- so it is the foreigners' fault for being foreign. Or really any minority or outside group. Hence my jadedness when I see it again.)