October 2023: 75th Anniversary of Helen Keller’s 1948 Visit to Japan

“Miss Keller met the press upon completion of her tour of Japan and gave her impressions of the work being done here for the blind and deaf. Just as the education of normal people in Japan depends on school boards represented by intelligent men and women alive to democracy and public ideals, so the blind and the deaf will receive the best assistance if the persons appointed to watch over their affairs are well qualified, forward-looking and sincerely interested in the well-being of the sensorially crippled, Miss Keller went on. The Japanese public must get it out of their heads that blind people are limited to just one job, that of massage, she emphasized.” Episode Notes: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2023/10/07/the-japan-times-1948-helen-keller-recounts-impression-of-japan-tour/