The Osaka Braille Mainichi: Japan's newspaper for the blind
Date
Credits
- Kyotaro Nakamura Editor
Format
- Newspaper 1059
Publishers
Techniques
- printing 333
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The Osaka Braille Mainichi is Japan's first and only Braille newspaper for the visually impaired created in 1922 and still ongoing today. It is part of one of the major newspaper companies in Japan called Mainichi Shimbum, and had written it's own independent reports, stories, and editing separate from the other Mainichi newspaper branches. Kyotaro Nakamura, a blind educator, was the first editor-in-chief of the newspaper, which not only employed the visually impaired, but gave further relation and relevance to the newspaper and its readers. It covers extensive topics with attempts to enrich people's education and professional lives, inform people on welfare enhancements, and rights. Throughout the century, the company saw a cycle of readers reading about these things in braille, sympathizing with them and being inspired to take further action. It played a crucial role in recording history of the visually impaired minority group while connecting and influencing the public. In current day, each issue consists of 60 pages on braille paper along with issues in large print tabloid size and an audio newspaper. They continue to change the world for the lives of the visually impaired.
