The rate of persons with hearing/speech disabilities and internal organs disabilities who can do daily activities by themselves is high as a whole. The rate of persons with visual disabilities and physical disabilities those who can eat by themselves is high, but that of those who can go daily shopping by themselves is 60% for persons with physical disabilities and 50% for persons with visual disabilities. With regard to persons with mental disorders, the rate of those who can eat by themselves is high, but the rate of those who can go daily shopping is about 70%, and those who can cook by themselves is about 50%.

  More than 60% of persons with physical disabilities are in need for house renovation. Toilet and bath are the most common renovated places.

  T10.6% of persons with visual disabilities use Braille, and only 17.3% of persons with severe visual disabilities use Braille, that means information provided by sound is indispensable to those who do not use Braille.
  Similarly 15.4% of persons with hearing disabilities use sign language, and only 23.0% of persons with severe hearing disabilities use sign language, that means information provided by script, such as conversation in written words and speech-to-text interpreters are indispensable to those who do not use sign language.