Discovering the Ideal of Independent Living ::A Comparative Study of Individuals Living Independently in Tokyo and the San'in Region

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The ideal of Independent Living (IL) has been widely supported in many advanced industrial societies since the international disability movement of the 1970s. While the effectiveness of the IL ideal is recognized in Japan, almost no research has been done to understand the processes by which individuals first become familiar with the ideal of IL and subsequently pursue a lifestyle reflective of it. This study, based on interviews with thirty-eight people living with physical disabilities in urban Tokyo and the provincial San'in region, describes when and how the IL movement spread in these two areas and the ways in which people encountered the ideal of IL. Although rates of development differed, similar patterns of development were evident in the two areas. In the early stages in both areas, a very limited number of individuals undertook experimental efforts at IL. As this group of pioneers began to form a center for independent living (CIL), former classmates and other acquaintances were recruited to join the movement. Finally, as the CIL began to provide services to the community, a growing number of individuals encountered the IL ideal through the CIL's outreach efforts. Unique to the Tokyo area were two kinds of case, one in which individuals made use of a Tokyo CIL to relocate to Tokyo and another in which a person who had no special awareness of the IL movement applied for a job at a CIL.
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