Japan's central and local governments are required under a new law to take steps to promote the use of sign language, aiming to build momentum ahead of hosting the Deaflympics in November. The law ...

Interpreter Ryoko Hamano, right, uses sign language to convey a doctor's message to a patient. (Photo courtesy of Sapporo City General Hospital) TOKYO -- People with hearing disabilities in Japan are ...

Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person uses ...

Japan Airlines has begun a new service to improve accessibility for customers using Japanese sign language. JAL said it is offering video remote interpreting services at select customer service ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds up a frame with the new era name, Reiwa, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 1, 2019. (Mainichi/Masahiro Kawata) TOKYO -- At an ...

We are researching technology for generating sign-language computer graphics (CG) by inputting Japanese sentences and having a CG character reproduce those sentences in sign language. Here, we exhibit ...

HIGASHI-OSAKA, Osaka Prefecture—At the end of their long and close relationship, Miki Ando was the one providing aid for Leon, a dog specially trained to help deaf people. Leon himself developed ...

As Japan and Australia prepared to face off in Sunday’s rugby wheelchair bronze-medal final, some viewers in Japan may have seen Yuki Goto reciting both teams’ starting lineups in sign language, hands ...

Hold your two index fingers up, facing each other about 20 centimeters apart, then curl them toward each other as if they were bowing. “Hello” to you too, reader. This is a story about sign language.