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  2. Deafness in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The recorded history of Japanese Sign language (JSL) is relatively young, with its modern form developing in 1878. [4] In his 1862 expedition across Europe, scholar Fukuzawa Yukichi studied various deaf schools, analyzing their use of speech and sign language. [4] In 1863, Yamao Yōzō analyzed the use of sign language among deaf shipbuilders ...

  3. Japanese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    There are 304,000 Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who are above age 18 in Japan (2008). However, there is no specific source about the number of JSL users because of the difficulty in distinguishing who are JSL users and who use other kinds of sign, like Signed Japanese (対応手話, taiō-shuwa) and Pidgin Signed Japanese (中間手話, chūkan-shuwa).

  4. Japanese Federation of the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    The JFD supports Deaf culture in Japan and works to revise laws that prevent the Deaf in Japan from participating in various professions and activities. [3] In addition, JFD helps to incorporate Japanese Sign Language into education systems for the Deaf and supports the sign language interpreter system.

  5. Miyakubo Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Miyakubo Sign Language (Japanese: 宮窪手話, romanized: Miyakubo Shuwa) also known as Ehime-Oshima Sign Language, is a village sign language of Ōshima Island in the western Inland Sea of Japan. In the town of Miyakubo on the island, there exist a high incidence of congenital deafness.

  6. Japanese manual syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Sign Language syllabary (指文字, yubimoji, literally "finger letters") is a system of manual kana used as part of Japanese Sign Language (JSL). It is a signary of 45 signs and 4 diacritics representing the phonetic syllables of the Japanese language. Signs are distinguished both in the direction they point, and in whether the ...

  7. Japanese Sign Language family - Wikipedia

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    The first Japanese school for the deaf was established in Kyoto in 1878. In 1879, it became a large public school. In the following year, Tokyo opened a large public school for deaf children. [3] Initially, what was being taught in the school located in Kyoto was different from what was being taught in the school in Tokyo.

  8. Central School for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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    The Tokyo School for the Deaf was established in 1880. [2] Initially, the school adopted a manual teaching method, despite international trends towards oralism. [3] In 1897, the director was Shinpachi Konishi. [4] In 1915, alumni of the Tokyo School for the Deaf founded the Japanese Association of the Deaf.

  9. Signed Japanese - Wikipedia

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    On page 8 of "Deaf Culture Declaration'', They define deaf people as a "linguistic minority who speak Japanese Sign Language, a language different from Japanese". [9] After writing all of this, they discussed the importance of bilingual education in Japanese Sign Language and written Japanese.

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