A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has sent five graduates to represent Japan at the Deaflympics in ...

Karimnagar: District collector Pamela Satpathy emphasised the need for a single, universal sign language across the world, stressing that everyone should learn it. She was speaking as the chief guest ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government is making final preparations to host the Deaflympics, known as the Olympics for people with ...

Japan's central and local governments are required under a new law to take steps to promote the use of sign language, aiming to build momentum ahead of hosting the Deaflympics in November. The law ...

The language used among the hearing-impaired in Japan is a visual language called "Japanese Sign Language," or JSL. JSL has a significantly different grammar from that of spoken Japanese language. It ...