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

The National Government’s official number of Deaf people : 312,000. Japanese Federation of the Deaf's official or approximate number of Deaf people: 23,905. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.)

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Japanese Federation of the Deaf (JFD) (WFD member)

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

World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.

Nippon Foundation. 2007. Gallaudet students visit the Nippon Foundation. Tokyo : Nippon foundation.

Nakamura, Karen. 2006. Deaf in Japan: signing and politics of identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Nakamura, Karen. 2006. Creating and contesting signs in contemporary Japan: language ideologies, identity and community in flux. In : Sign Language Studies 7: 11-29.

Torigoe, Takashi. 2006. Japanese Sign Language, In: Nakayama, Mineharu, Reiko .Mazuka and Yasuhiro.Shirai eds, Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics. Volume 2 Japanese. Cambridge University Press. 137-143.

Morgan, Michael W. 2005. Interrogatives and negatives in Japanese Sign Language. In: Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 91-.

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.

Sasaki, Daisuke. 2003. Comparing the lexicon of sign languages in East Asia : A preliminary study focusing on the influence of Japanese Sign Language on Taiwan Sign Language. Unpublished manuscript, University of Texas, Austin.

Nakamura, Karen. 2002. Resistance and Co‐optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power. In Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) (2002) Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-35.

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.

Takada, Eiichi. 2001. Solidarity and movements of the deaf and hard of hearing in Asia. In : Asia and Pacific Journal on Disability. 4 (2) 6-19.

Valentine, James. 2001. Disabled discourse: hearing accounts of deafness constructed through Japanese television and film. In : Disability & Society. 61: 707-721.

Fischer, Susan and Yutaka Osugi. 2000. Thumbs up vs. giving the finger: Indexical classifiers in NS and ASL. Paper presented at the Seventh Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 7), Amsterdam.

Minoura, Nobukatsu and Yasuhiro Ichida. 2000: Direct/inverse forms and the fourth person of the agreement verbs in Japanese Sign Language. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. July 23rd-27th. Amsterdam. Manuscript.

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. 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. 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.　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]

Okamoto, Inemaru. 1997. Kindai moorookyooiku no seiritu to hatten : Hurukawa Toisiroo no syoogai kara. [The Rise and Development of Modern Blind/Deaf Education : From the Life of Toshiro furukawa.] Tokyo : NHK(Nihon Hoosoo Kyokai).

Kato, Daisuke. 1996. Education at the Japan Oral School for the Deaf (Nippon Rowa Gakko), In : Early Child Development and Care. 122: 51-62.

Kimura, Harumi and Ichida Yasuhiro. 1995. Hazimete no Syuwa. Tokyo : Nihonbungeisha.

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.

Torigoe, Takashi. 1994. Resumptive X structures in Japanese Sign Language. In : Ahlgren, Inger / Bergman, Brita / Brennan, Mary eds. Perspectives on Sign Language Structure. Durham : International Sign Linguistics Association. 187-200.

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

Honna, Nobuyuki and Mihoko Kato. 1991. The sign language situation in Japan : problems and solutions. In: Equality and Self-reliance. Proceedings of the XI World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf, Tokyo, Japan, July 1991. 716-732.

Tajima, Masao. 1988. The present state and issues of the hard of hearing movement in Japan. (Presented at the 16th World Congress of Rehabilitation International).

Yosuke, Kawai. 1988. Welfare of hearing impaired persons in Japan.　(Presented at the 16th World Congress of Rehabilitation International).

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.

Imanishi, Takao. 1985. Origin and growth. In: I. G. Taylor ed. The Education of the Deaf. Current Perspectives, vol. 4. 2018-2019.

Yonekawa, Akihiko. 1984. The history of the Japanese word shuwa (sign language). In : Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Sign Language Studies. 6: 11-16.

Yonekawa, Akihiko. 1982. Silent communication in the middle of the Meiji period. In : Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Sign Language Studies. 4: 26-39.

Peng, FCC. 1974. Kinship signs in Japanese Sign Language. In : Sign Language Studies. 5: 31-47.

Kawamoto, Unosuke. 1933. The development of education for the deaf in Japan. In : Proceedings of the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, New Jersey School for the Deaf, June 18 to 23, 1933. 594-600.

Wright, John Dutton. 1926. Schools for the Deaf in the Orient. In : Volta Review.28: 49-52. [Subsequent articles on pp. 348-355; 415-417; 593-595; 769-770; report on South Asian schools.(includs Philippines, Japan, Burma(Myanmar), India and Ceylon(Sri Lanka))

Kramer, Lois F. 1925. Five years of speech for deaf children. In : Japan Evangelist. (1925, July) 246-47.

Kramer, Lois F. 1921. Making the eyes to hear: the story of the Japan deaf oral school. In : Japan Evangelist. (1921, Oct.) 250-252.

1915. Short account of the Tokyo Ro-a Gakko. Tokyo: Tokyo Ro-a Gakko.

1915. Teaching the Deaf in China, Japan, and Korea. In : Volta Review. 17: 314.

Simmons, A. L. 1912. The deaf in Japan. In : The Teacher of the Deaf. 10: 79-82.

Konishi, Shimpachi. 1910. Education of the blind and dumb. In: Education in Japan; prepared for the Japan-Britain Exhibition, 1910. Part 9: 1-13. Tokyo: Department of Education.

1903. Monographs on the Education of the Blind and Deaf in the Kyoto, Japan, Institution. In : Association Review. 5 : 397.

1903. Short account of the Tokyo Blind and Dumb school. Tokyo: Tokyo Blind and Dumb School [Moa-Gakko].

1899. Rapport sommaire sur l'Ecole des Aveugles et des Sourds-Muets de Tokyo. In : The Association Review, an educational magazine. 2 (1900): 189-191,

1883. Deaf-mute education in Japan. In : American Annals of the Deaf. 28 (4) 271-272.

Saruhashi, Junko and Yuko Takeshita. Ten Linguistic Issues in Japan: The Impact of Globalization. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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

Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Japan

Fingeralphabete (Japan)

Kyoto Prefectural Education Center Website with explanations in English

Japanese Association of Sign Language Interpreters

Japanese Association of Sign Linguistics (JASL)

Sign Puddle Online 1.5 : Write Sign Language Dictionaries & Literature in Any Sign Language in the World...

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