This article uses the uppercase "Deaf " to refer to the distinct community or culture that many people who cannot hear feel a part of. The lowercase term "deaf" refers to the condition of total or ...

A four-piece Japanese rock band with three members who have impaired hearing has marked 35 years since it began performing music expressed also through sign language. To keep rhythm for their ...

an international sporting event for hearing-impaired athletes that will be held for the first time in Japan in November, and on other occasions. “Sign language is the first language for the ...

Ahead, Makiko Yamagata, a native Japanese speaker who lives in Nagoya, Japan, and Katsuhiro Ito, also a native Japanese speaker as well as a language ... there’s no stop sign in sight when ...

Thus far, we have developed a technology for automatically generating sign language CG animation of the latest weather forecasts based on weather data received from Japan Meteorological Agency.

It is to be demonstrated in action for the first time at a conference in Japan at the end of April. Until now, there has been no shortage of methods for using American Sign Language (ASL ...