Disability in Tokyo: On Vanishing and the Imaginary
Mark Bookman is currently a PhD student in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He came to Japan on a Fulbright…
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Barrierless City Awards and Competition
On March 26th, the Barrierless City Awards and Competition was held in downtown Tokyo. The competition began as the effort of two architects – one…
Business Booming at Japanese Cafe Run by Deaf Employees
At Sign With Me, a local soup Café in Tokyo customers are received by sign language and gestures from staff members. In Japan it is…
Japanese Disabled Artist Tomihiro Hoshino
Tomihiro Hoshino was an experienced 24-year-old gymnastics teacher with a real passion for the sport. An active mountain climber and gymnastics instructor, his life changed…
An Interview with author Suzanne Kamata
A while back someone forwarded me an article from the Japan Times about a mother traveling in Japan with her daughter who has a disability.…
An Interview with Dr. Michael Gillan Peckitt
Longtime readers will know our star writer, Dr. Michael Gillan Peckitt. Dr. Peckitt and I first crossed paths in early 2015 when we were both…
