Your smartphone can be your greatest ally when visiting Japan. Being able to access apps like Google Maps or reading Accessible Japan reviews will undoubtedly make your stay there even more fantastic. If you’re travelling to Japan and want to stay connected during your visit, here are your options – Read more…
Just like the rest of the world, Japan runs on smartphones. Even children have small mobile phones that allow them to call home and allow their parents to find their child via GPS. Despite this, there is still the need for land-line based phone booths in case of a disaster Read more…
Notes from the Obstacle Course Dr. Michael Peckitt She experiences the small daily shock of reentry that every foreigner in Tokyo knows. A sudden, pulse-quickening awareness of the obvious: Here I am, in Japan. Every morning it takes her by surprise – the sudden consciousness of profound difference… Even after Read more…
The Japanese braille system is based on the original braille script and is known as “tenji” (literally, “dot characters”) in Japanese. As with most other braille languages, it was developed together with the education for the blind during the late 19th century. The specific phonological and orthographic differences in the Read more…
Born in Sheffield in 1978, Michael Gillan Peckitt studied Philosophy at the University of Hull, obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in 2001 and his PhD in 2010. He has had left-sided spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy and epilepsy since birth. He has had teaching posts at various universities and is currently a Read more…
Often people with disabilities use phrases like “access for all” and we usually mean “access for us”. However, as I watch the accessibility landscape change over my years in Japan, I have noticed that it really does mean for all. I have been living in Japan for 8 years now Read more…