The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics will provide a key opportunity for Japan to promote a more inclusive society, sports experts said at a symposium in Tokyo on Friday.
They also said the games should help Japan consider what it can do to develop sports for people with disabilities in other Asian nations lagging in the field.
"I think the Paralympics need to use the very powerful platform to say people with disability need much greater access to education, much greater access to employment and much greater access to participating in their communities," said Alexandra Devine, a senior research officer at the Nossal Institute for Global Health in Australia. "It's very important during the Paralympics that Tokyo does raise awareness of the inequities."