ABSTRACT
Nineteen people were killed and 27 injured in the care facility of people with mentally disabilities, Tsukui Yamauri En, in the suburbs of Tokyo on 26 July 2016. The perpetrator was attracted to the eugenic thought that people with severe mental disability were not worth living. Following the incident, social interest increased in the history of the disabled movement that campaigned against said eugenic thought and segregation. However, many people with severe mental disabilities who live with their parents or in facilities have little access to nursing care services for independent living. The discourse that arose against the eugenic thought was in effect structurally reinforcing eugenism and making the people who had lived there socially invisible. While there have been many disabled people who have been able to express their own will and gain a louder voice as a result of the disability movement, there are those who remain outside the movement and continue to stay silent.
