David Bar-Tzur
Flag: World flag database.
Map: Maps.com. - "search" for country, then "Digital Map Graphics").
For a quick, interesting resource for facts about this and other countries,
try Mystic Planet - The New Age directory of Planet Earth.
Note: A flag next to a link shows what language the website is in. If it is followed by this icon: (
), it is a video in that spoken language. If it is followed by this icon: 
, it is in the sign language of that country. If a globe is followed by this hands icon, there is an animated text in International Gesture.
Lead. Night Deluxe (Sign Language Version).
PommeFrite. (2006, December 8). Japanese Sign Language Dance.At "Polle Polle Festival" in Yokohama.
tanadashigeru.
(2007, July 23). Psalm23.
(2007, January 9). 越谷市の歌1. 越谷市の歌を手話に翻訳しました。
(2007, January 9). 越谷市の歌 その2. 越谷市の歌その2を手話に翻訳しました。
(2007, January 9). 越谷市の歌 その3. 越谷市の歌 その3を手話に翻訳してみました。
IPtalk.
Rion: Hearing aids, assistive listening devices, medical equipment.,
【ワールドパイオニア】聞こえにくい・聞こえない人にも優しい明日を目指して.
ワールドパイオニア】聞こえにくい・聞こえない人にも優しい明日を目指して.
日本ヒアリングドッグ協会.
介助犬をそだてる会.
NPO法人日本ヒアリングドッグ協会.
聴覚障害と手話のフリートーク.
いっしーのホームページ.
Monaghan, L, Nakamura, K., Schmaling, C. & Turner, G. H. (Eds.) (May 2003). Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Twenty-four international scholars have contributed their findings from studying Deaf communities in Japan, Thailand, Viet Nam, Taiwan, Russia, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Ireland, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Nicaragua, and the United States. Sixteen chapters consider the various antecedents of each country1s native signed language, taking into account the historical background for their development and also the effects of foreign influences and changes in philosophies by the larger, dominant hearing societies. ISBN 1-56368-135-8
きいろぐみライブラリー：手話パフォーマンスきいろぐみ & 手話あいらんど：So-net blog.
Ｏ−ＣＡＰ（大阪キャプショナーズ）.
千葉県パソコン要約筆記研究会 らびっと.
Plus (PC Caption). (Hokkaido)
きいろぐみライブラリー：手話パフォーマンスきいろぐみ & 手話あいらんど：So-net blog.
【楽天市場】手話 の検索結果：通販・インターネットショッピング.
Bibliography on Deaf communities in Japan.
Discovering Deaf worlds - Japan.
ichirokes. Hawaiian Deaf Friend. He lectured about his personal life in Japan.
Nakamura, K. (2006, July 27). Cornell University Press. ISBN-10: 0801443504, ISBN-13: 978-0801443503. Until the mid-1970s, deaf people in Japan had few legal rights and little social recognition. Legally, they were classified as minors or mentally deficient, unable to obtain driver's licenses or sign contracts and wills. Many worked at menial tasks or were constantly unemployed, and schools for the deaf taught a difficult regimen of speechreading and oral speech methods rather than signing. After several decades of activism, deaf men and women are now largely accepted within mainstream Japanese society.
Publications and presentations by KAMEI Nobutaka.
tonchan8. きよさんトーク. 木村晴美のブログ「ろう者で日本人で...」のきよさんトークシ リーズ（とん動画）
【楽天市場】バッジ・ピンズ >指文字バッジ：トロフィーの王様ダイワ徽章.
デフジャパン【ろう者に関する情報を提供するウェブサイト】.
デフユニオン【聴覚障害,ろう,聾,難聴の情報を掲載するウェブサイト】.
手話クラブ 『ハンド☆ライフ』.
Artia, E. (11 June 2003). Sign language demanded for deaf students: Teachers rely on spoken word, hampering quality of education.
D PRO - School of Autumn 2006.
Fukushima Prefectural School for the Deaf.
Hiratsuka-Hawaii Deaf Students Conference.
Japanese Deaf News.
(2006, May 1). Tsukuba University of Technology enrollment ceremony.
(2004, May). Aspirations and dreams for a better deaf education.
(2003, August). What's going to happen to deaf education? - Report on recent movements.
Kyoto branch School for the deaf (Maizuru).
Matsumoto School for the Deaf.
Nagasaki Prefectural Sasebo School for the Deaf.
Oosaka School for the deaf.
PEN-International.
(2004). PEN-International and Tsukuba College of Technology/Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf interactive programs.This is a downloadable PDF file.(2003, June 12). Deaf Japanese drummers to perform in US: American debut to open ITED Symposium.This is a downloadable PDF file.Black, K. E. (2002, Spring/Summer). NTID FOCUS: A PENchant for possibilities.This is a downloadable PDF file.(2001, February 22). NTID gets major funding, creates university partnership.
Shakujii High School for the deaf.
Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu School for the Deaf.
William Clymer. Scroll down to "Greetings to Tsukuba Technical College" and click on the various links to pictures.
Yamanashi School For The Deaf.
Yoshida, S. A bridge from a soundless world. When I was four, my voice training started at a school for deaf-mute children. It took me almost two years to master pronunciation of the 50 sounds in the Japanese alphabet. Children in my neighborhood bullied me because of my physical disability, and I knew my mother was really upset by this. I could barely pronounce "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo," the key phrase of our Buddhist practice, by the time I was five.
聴覚・言語障害教育 ユニバーサルデザイン・学校インターネット.
社団法人埼玉県聴覚障害者協会青年部.
ろう・難聴教育研究会.
特定非営利活動法人バイリンガル・バイカルチュラルろう教育センター.
バイリンガルろう教育研究会.
雪猿 ユキザル。 〜Winter〜.
本校ホームページに記載された内容に関する著作権は本校に所属します。.
こばと聾学校ホームページ.
全国ろう児をもつ親の会 (Japan Deaf Children and Parents Association).,
学校法人 日本聾話学校 -難聴幼児通園施設 ライシャワ・クレーマ学園-.
ようこそ、くまろうホームページへ.
宮城県立ろう学校 (Miyagi Prefectural School for the Deaf).,
かなりや学園.
聞こえない子をもつ親のページ.
佐賀県立ろう学校Web.
聾教育研究会.
このページを表示するには、フレームをサポートしているブラウザが必要です。.
愛知県立豊橋聾学校のページ (Toyohashi School for the Deaf).,
聴覚障害児と共に歩む会・トライアングル.
視覚障害者と聴覚障害者のための国立大学：筑波技術大学 (Tsukuba College, Division for the Deaf).,
D PRO - Calendar.
手話サークルたけのこホームページ テキスト版: カレンダー.
レッドベレーズホームページ. イベント報告, イベント予定.
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I love you (Official website)..
I love you (Japan, 1999, 111 min, color - Captioned in English). tells the story of Asako, a deaf woman determined to start an acting group in her small town with the support of her daughter, Ai, who is hearing. Through her struggles and successes, she inspires both deaf and hearing people to work together to accomplish great things. Akiko Oshidari makes her acting debut in this groundbreaking first Japanese film made by a hearing and a deaf director.
SavageCookiezz. (2007, December 16). Orange Days (Kiss Scene).,,This is a clip from episode 8 that i just cut out. i really like this j drama and i wanted to watch this scene for myself. Orange Days is a Japanese drama about a deaf mute girl who falls in love. She can only read lips and do sign language. She has a special talent even though she is deaf, she can play the violin, and the piano really really good. Comment?
www.disabilityfilms.co.uk.
Happiness of us alone.Film (1962) Japan, 114 min, drama. After her husband is killed in the war a deaf woman returns to her mother's. Then she falls In love with a man who is also deaf and speaking impaired. Trusting his promises that they can be happy they get married. But for many years things don't go right. However finally she comes to believe that her life is valuable. Catya writes: I was told that Hideko Takamine is deaf, but after seeing her in another film, I'm not too sure. It's a lovely film, anyway.
Hymn to a tired man. Film (1969) Japan, 120 min, drama. During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the patent office. The man is still the bully he was.
Musuko (My sons). Film (1991) Japan, romance. A young man falls in love with a deaf, speaking impaired factory girl.
Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku. Film (1961) Japan. Positive story of a deaf woman who marries a deaf, speaking impaired husband.
デッドサイレンス Dead silence..
『過去は今』公式ウェブサイト Kako ha ima..
風の歌が聴きたい Kaze no uta ga kikitai..
http://homepage2.nifty.com/deaf-med-net/.
Japanese Deaf News.
(2007, February 1). Showa University Hospital to be the first Japanese University Hospital to open an out-patient clinic for the deaf.
(2006, April 1). New nursing care facilities to ensure a happy future for aged deaf.
(2003, July). Symposium on hearing screening for newborn infants - Protestors demand immediate discontinuation of the screening test.
(2003, May). Support and care to the deaf - In the community... In a well-equipped facility with trained personnel.
DeafTODAY.
(2004, August 5). Childhood Memories Revived at Chunchon Puppet Festival.... Hitomi's Deaf Puppet Theater is composed of hearing-challenged actors. Their puppets will reproduce an incident revolving around an old woman and a raccoon to be done without speech. However, you are sure to understand what the cute puppets in Japanese traditional costumes are trying to say as you find yourself immersed in the story.
(2004, July 16). New Tokyo school to prepare deaf students for university education. The Tokyo metropolitan government has decided to open a school for the deaf that will offer six years of middle and high school education intended to enable students to go to universities and colleges, according to metropolitan government officials.
(2004, April 14). All about apples and oranges. The opening of Orange Days has Kai (Satoshi Tsumabuki) presenting an orange (of the natsumikan or iyokan variety) to Sae (Ko Shibasaki). He is a fourth-year social welfare major with sign-language skills, who is desperately searching for a full-time job. She is a hearing-impaired violinist who smokes, can sign in both the Kanto and Kansai dialects and enjoys making shockingly outrageous X-rated sign language statements.
(2004, March 13). Sign language translation via videophone soon to appear. An interpretation service company will launch a new operation to translate sign language via videophones at counters at department stores, banks and travel agencies in the city of Fukuoka in April, it said Saturday.
(2003, June 12). Deaf Japanese Drummers to Perform in US; American Debut to Open ITED Symposium. ITED runs from the 25th to the 27th, during which time the drummers will perform on three occasions. Additionally, in the two days prior to the symposium the drummers will conduct workshops on the campus alongside one team of non-hearing impaired drummers from San Francisco.
(2003, June 11). Sign language demanded for deaf students. One would think it only natural that sign language be the main means of communicating and teaching at schools for the hearing-impaired, but in Japan the spoken word generally comes first. Late last month, 43 deaf children and 64 of their parents submitted a petition to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations in which they claimed that their children's right to education was being infringed upon because school lessons are not given in Japanese sign language.
(2003, March 13). Japanese Government assists three communities. The Japanese Ambassador, Mrs Kazuko Asai, on Wednesday expressed regret that though education was a fundamental right of all children, society's attitude towards the education of disabled children was "not very encouraging".
(2003, January 9). Tokyo police to modernize 110 emergency call system. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is improving its "110" emergency call system to respond to a surge in the number of calls from mobile phones and to enable hearing-impaired people to send emergency e-mails.
(2003, January 5). Saitama may change disabled student rules. The Saitama prefectural government is considering allowing handicapped students to enroll in both ordinary schools and schools for handicapped people, according to sources close to the government.
(2002, December 19). Leery broadcaster stymies Net text system. The disapproval of a major broadcaster is thwarting the efforts of a support group to implement a text display system on its Web site that would allow the hearing disabled to more fully enjoy television viewing.
The history of D PRO., D SHOP.
日本聾史学会.
GUAA-NC ギャローデット大学同窓会日本支部.
麻生区聴覚障害者協会.
特定非営利活動法人世田谷区聴覚障害者協会. or alternate site.
デフアイ【障害】.
日本聴覚障害者デザイン協会.
財団法人全日本ろうあ連盟 (Japan Federation of the Deaf).,
日本聾史学会.
日本手話教育研究会.
富山県のろう者からの情報発信 ekonaのホームページ.
DeafToday. (2003, January 13). Performer makes light of disability. A young man conquered both his nerves and his disability in his stage debut as a clown at a performance in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Sunday.
DeafTV-Japan. or alternate site.,
Special interview ～ Mariko Takamura～.
tanadashigeru. (2007, January 9). ろうのアイデンティティ. ろう者として生きる決心を見せたある青年の詩である。
Japanese Deaf News.
(2006, January 1). Guarantee communication and support for living at all times and in all situations!.
(2003, November). Standpoint of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf Concerning the "Petition for Redress of Human Rights".
Shunsuke, I. (1968). Interpretation theory - Interpretation defending the rights of deaf people.
Dolphins Deaf Basketball, Japan.
International Martial Arts Federation of the deaf: Japanese Deaf Martial Artists.
Japanese Deaf News. (2004, April). Heated competition and warm friendship on Mt. Tateyama - The 35th National Winter Games for the Deaf.
Ｊａｐａｎ Ｄｅａｆ Ｒｕｇｂｙ Ｃｌｕｂ （日本聴覚障害者ラグビークラブ） 林 敏之の楽苦美（ラグビー）ブログ/ウェブリブログ.
デフラグビー.
日本デフサーフィン連盟のＨＰにようこそ.
あなたは番目の訪問者です.
Sign Language interpreters In Japan. History, working condition, professional association, relationship with the Deaf community, training of interpreters, certification of interpreters, ethical practices.
Sign Language interpreters In Japan. History, working condition, professional association, relationship with the Deaf community, training of interpreters, certification of interpreters, ethical practices.
History of Zen-tsu-ken - The National Research Association for Sign Language Interpretation. is a nationwide organization that researches sign language, sign language interpretation, and issues of deaf people, and works for the improvement of the welfare for deaf people and the improvement of the social position of sign language interpreters. The affiliated chapters 47 nationwide administrative divisions in all act and study with deaf groups for the welfare improvement of the region.
Sign Language interpreters In Japan. History, working condition, professional association, relationship with the Deaf community, training of interpreters, certification of interpreters, ethical practices.
千葉手話通訳問題研究会 千通研.SèbÊóâè¤ï{é§x.
手話通訳ネットワーク.
Ritsumeikan: Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (Dept.of Robotics on Fac.of Sci.and Eng.).,
Tokyo Denki University: Nakamura Lab.
手話認識研究ポータルサイト.
deafyama. (2007, June 22). Japanese Sign Language.
ichirokes.
(2007, June 26). Japanese Sign Language part two.Junichi.
(2007, February 5). Kenichi Wright has a Japanese Deaf friends.
(2006, December 10). Japanese Sign Language. Starbuck.
-->International bibliography of sign language. --> Click on "J", then on "Japanese Sign Language".
Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies - Research activities by KAMEI Nobutaka.
Japanese Sign Language: A language of Japan.
Nakamura, K. About Japanese Sign Language. The bottom of this page has some notes from Murray Bulger about reading Japanese on American PCs.
Network Accessibility Project (NAP).
ＮＰＯ法人 日本ＡＳＬ協会. Japanese Signers Society (JASS).,
Publications and presentations by KAMEI Nobutaka.
puzzpua. (2007, February 2). Japanese Sign Language.Jesada signing in JSL!
Sign Language Club[s].
Sign Language of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
SignPuddle. Literature Japan.
Signs around the world: Japan. Individual country videotapes feature native Deaf male and female signers from that country. Each tape is separated into three sections which include personal introduction, vocabulary, and narrative.
SLLing-Net ［手話文法研究室］ Sign Language Linguistics Net.
stickelfamily. (2007, July 14). Japanese Sign Language [TV program].
tanadasigeru.
Japan Sign Language Lessons. 日本手話の学習: Lesson 1 (色：colors), Lesson 2 (家族：family), Lesson 3 (仕事：Job), Lesson 4 (学校：school), Lesson 5 (地名：place), Lesson 6 (家：house), Lesson 7 (時代 : times), Lesson 8 (曜日：day), Lesson 9 (○月：month).
Risho University. Introduction, Introduction 2.
tonchan8. ■語彙。 手話教師センターblogの「ナチュラルアプローチ教授法ビデオ 講座｣シリーズ。: １（語彙数の問題）, ２（語彙体系）, ３（非手指副詞と単語）, ４（使用）, ５（慣用句）, ６（モダリティ）, ７（ロールシフト）.
Wilkinson, J. & Marthinussen, J. (1997). Japanese Sign Language. is a distinct sign language with unique vocabulary and grammar that is totally unrelated to ASL although it has some relation to Korean Sign Language and Taiwanese Sign Language. JSL is not standardized at all. There are minor variations of signs and grammar from region to region and island to island...
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~lovely-kyoko/katudou.html.
5年生1学期.
手話勉強会 - 参加者のひろば 第109回.
福祉ネットワーク.
手話サークルたけのこ.
日本聴力障害新聞のホームページ.Scroll down and click on the links in the yellow box on the right that start "(WMV..." or "(MPEG1..."
株式会社インフォーム 手話の学習用ビデオ発売のお知らせ.
日本手話学会.
日本手話教育研究会.
Bar-Tzur, D. Indigenous signs for cities: Japan.
-->International bibliography of sign language. --> Click on "J", then on "Japanese Sign Language dictionary".
SignPuddle. Dictionary Japan.
補聴器愛用会.
DeafToday.
(2003, June 11). Bible being translated into Japanese sign language.Eiji Matsumoto, 40, is doing the world's first work of translating the whole of the New and Old testaments, totaling 2,000 pages in Japanese, into sign language for a 104-hour recording on videotapes and digital video disks (DVDs).
(2003, April 6). Sign-language Bible to be made for video, DVD. Two Christian associations have begun a 15-year mission to produce a sign-language Bible to be made available on video and DVD. When completed, it will be the first Bible of its kind in the world, according to the Japan Deaf Evangel Mission, based in Kiyose city, Tokyo, and the Japan Bible Society, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.
Japan Deaf Evangel Mission.
tanadashigeru. (2007, July 23). Psalm23.
