A push is underway to create smaller, community-integrated group homes for people with disabilities in the wake of last year's mass murder at a large, outdated care facility.

Around 130,000 people with disabilities are currently accommodated in some 2,600 large facilities built in relatively isolated locations across Japan in line with decades-old policy.

The Tsukui Yamayuri En in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, the site of the killings of 19 residents with intellectual disabilities by a former worker a year ago, was one such facility.