A Girl’s Guide to the Islands – Book Review
Suzanne Kamata is the author of the YA novels Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible and Screaming Divas recently gave us an advance copy…
Category: Culture
24 Hour Television – Love Saves the Earth 2016
If you are happen to be in Japan during the last weekend of August, be sure to watch 24 Hour Television on NTV. 24 Hour…
Support Squeaky Wheels by Suzanne Kamata!
Expat author, advocate, and friend of Accessible Japan, Suzanne Kamata’s unpublished memoir Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Plane, Train, Boat, Tuk-tuk, Metro and…
New Anime Film with Deaf Lead Character will have Subtitles in Theater
A Silent Voice is a new animated film about a lead character who is bullied for being deaf. While most anime in Japan is broadcast without closed…
Agricultural Welfare Workshops for Disabled
With new government regulations formed to support welfare workshops specifically for disabled people, we could see agriculture across Japan begin to regrow. These new initiatives…
Kimono for Wheelchair Users
A firm from Aichi Prefecture has created a simple to wear kimono for wheelchair users. In the past it has been extremely difficult for people…