Japan

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Indigenous signs for "Japan"

Illustrations in the literature

"Japan" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 10.)

Spoken languages

Japanese

Sign languages

Japanese Sign Language

Amami O Shima Sign Language

Population of Deaf/deaf people

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Japanese Federation of the Deaf (JFD) (WFD member, cited from WFD website)

http://www.jfd.or.jp/en/

Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies

Education for the deaf

Deaf communities and cultures

Religious activities by the Deaf

Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages

Sign language dictionaries

Nihon Shuwa Kenkyusho ed. 1997. Nihongo-Shuwa jiten. Tokyo: Zen Nihon Roa Renmei. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. 1997. Japanese-Sign language dictionary. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf. [In Japanese])

Japanese Federation of the Deaf. Institute for Sign Language Studies(Editorial Board: Honna, Nobuyuki, Mihoko Kato, Michiko Tsuchiya and Kunihiko Sadahiro) eds. 1991. An English dictionary of basic Japanese signs. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf.

Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Languageand Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]

Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, The Society for the Deaf in Selangor and the Federal Teritory, Osaka YMCA eds. 1984. Speaking with Signs.(Third Version) Osaka: OsakaYMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]

1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]

1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary ofHong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]

Bibliography

Ann, Jean. 2003. The Chiying school in Taiwan: A foreigner's perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 230-248.

Nakamura, Karen. 2003. U-turns, Deaf shock, and the hard of hearing: Japanese Deaf identities at the borderlands. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 211-229.

Nakamura, Karen. 2001. Deaf identities, sign languages, and minority social movement politics in modern Japan (1868-2000). Ph.D.dissertation., C.T., USA: Yale University.

2000. Japan. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 117.

2000. Japanese Sign Language. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 117.

Tsuchiya, Michiko. 1999. Education of the deaf in Japan : Its development and current issues. In : Global perspectives on the education of the deaf in selected countries. Hillsboro, Ore. : Butte Publications. 205-218.

Osugi, Yutaka, Ted Supalla and Rebecca Webb. 1999. The use of word elicitation to identify distinctive gestural systems on Amami Island. In: Sign Language & Linguistics vol.2 no.1.87-112.

Osugi, Yutaka and Supalla, Ted. 1998. Structural analysis of gender handshapes in Nihon Shuwa(Japanese Sign Language). In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :60-74.

Nakamura, Karen (Yale). 1998. U-turns, Deaf shock, and the Hard-of-hearing: Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :58-59.(translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]

Mori, Soya (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies). 1998. Deaf nations: Identity and ideology in Japanese sign language communities. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :58.(translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]

Nonaka, Angela M. (Ratchasuda). 1998. Deaf-initions of cultural identity in contemporary Japan. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :57-58.(translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]

Tsuchiya, Michiko. 1994. The deaf Japanese and their self-identity. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.　65-68.

1992. Japan In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders [first edition]. New York : Facts on File.

Kanda, Kazuyuki. 1987. Sign languages : Japanese. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 89-92.

Arakawa, Isamu. 1987. Japan. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw-Hill. vol.2. 109-112.

Films and videos

Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Japan. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

Notes