By Mark Bookman When you put on a pair of rabbit ears and join a troupe of elegantly-dressed maids in a solemn prayer for the deliciousness of your beer, disability hardly seem to matter. In fact, it is often the so-called able-bodied among us who find themselves paralyzed by delight, Read more…
Suzanne Kamata is the author of the YA novels Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible, Screaming Divas and the travelogue A Girls’ Guide to the Islands, about traveling in Japan with her daughter who has multiple disabilities. Her newest book, Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Read more…
By Mark Bookman On Thursday, October 11th, 2018 I had the opportunity to visit the 45th International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition (HCR) at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba, Japan. The three-day exhibition is the largest of its kind in Asia and features products from a wide range of vendors, Read more…
By Accessible Japan reader, M. G. What is real, and what is not? You can engage in eternal debates concerning that question, but you yourself know best what is real to you, and what is not. This seems to be what the protagonists of Takehiko Inoue’s manga REAL discover. Their Read more…
By Kelly Frost Adapting Japan In the Province of the Gods is at once the extremely personal and specific story of one man’s journeys to Japan and also an entirely recognizable story of self-discovery and universal truths. Weaving his personal travel narrative with those of writers who have come before Read more…
In preparation for our book review of In the Province of the Gods, author Kenny Fries was kind enough to share the following excerpt. During the time I lived in Japan, I was often asked, “What is it like to be disabled in Japan?” “I can’t answer that question,” quickly Read more…