By Andy Barrow I have a confession to make. My two-part blog may have grown somewhat… Sorry! (Read part one here!) Basically, I felt that summing up my thoughts on access in Tokyo and how the city will cope with hosting two world events back to back in 2019 and 2020, Read more…
By Andy Barrow My name is Andy Barrow and I’m an international speaker who also happens to be a full-time wheelchair user. I’ve spent over half my life in a chair after sustaining a spinal cord injury during a rugby game in 1997 that left me paralysed from the chest Read more…
By Suzanne Kamata I first learned of Okunoshima from a Canadian friend’s Facebook post. She’d shared photos of herself surrounded by rabbits. The island just off the coast of Shikoku and only accessible by ferry, was overrun with these adorable animals. How unusual, I thought. How cute! Surprisingly, few Japanese Read more…
By Kim Almas In October 2017, our family took an 8-day/5 port Diamond Princess cruise around Japan. My husband is partially disabled, so having one place to call “home” for the week (with meals included!) while we visited places all around the country was ideal for our first time visit. Read more…
An award-winning accessibility info app for anyone, with or without disability! Wheelchair users, persons with visual or hearing impairments, persons sensitive to noise, parents with strollers, seniors and foreign tourists… What do they have in common? They all benefit from accessibility information on the places they want to visit. Bmaps Read more…
One goal of Accessible Japan is to introduce prominent Japanese people with disabilities to the rest of the world. We recently had the opportunity to interview Toshiya Kakiuchi, founder and president of Mirairo. Toshiya has osteogenesis imperfecta which led to many challenges in school, but inspired him to start a company Read more…