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

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

One would think it only natural that sign language be the main means of communicating and teaching at schools for the hearing-impaired, but in Japan the spoken word generally comes first. Late last ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...