The Tokyo Paralympics held this summer fostered a greater understanding of disabilities, a Kyodo News survey carried out shortly after the Games showed Sunday.
Seventy percent of respondents in the survey, covering people with a wide variety of disabilities in 45 of Japan's 47 prefectures, said the hosting of the sports event led to a better understanding of their own disability or disabilities in general.
The most common reason given for the answer was that the Paralympics "drew social attention to people with disabilities through the athletes' performances," followed by "increased exposures of people with disabilities in the media."