This morning I had a dream. And no, my name is not Martin, Luther, or King. That I was stood at Shinjuku station and I was lost. And no matter how fast I tried to move, my legs, due to the fact that they had suddenly turned into lead weights, would not move at all. [...]
Anybody who has visited Japan will have seen Fukuzawa Yukichi on nearly a daily basis, though they may not know it. His serious face and stalwart image is indeed involved in many everyday transactions. Even if you haven’t set foot even close to Japan yet, then the first few pages of a textbook on Japanese [...]
Of course, we all know that deaf people live everywhere. There is no Deafland from which these people originally came, and there is no Deaflanguage that they universally use. That said, deaf people are unique in their society, their culture, and their languages, and their concerns and appraisal for the place in which they live [...]