Dear All,
At around 00:30 Friday morning last week,
a young Deaf leader in Japan,IZUMI Yoshihide,
who was my sign languager teacher once,
was killed. It was a hit and run away case.
The driver has been arrested.
According to a paper, the police considers his deafness
as one of the causes of the his death. The car was coming
from behind and because he was deaf, he could not
react...
I just wonder this kind of thinking is limited to
this country.
Izumi was also a manager at now-closed DEAFTOPIA,
a sign language cafe in Tokyo, where voice
communication was prohibited.
NAGASE Osamu
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