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Adventures Of Volunteers In Japan

This is our team. Five people from the team are deaf. I’m off-screen because I’m the one to photograph.

March, 7th was a one-year anniversary of the powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. All of us took a day-off and rented a bus to go to the city of Isinomaki. We were going to live in a guest house and help.


Most of us saw each other for the first time. The guy in the middle wearing a grey jacket is a legend. He’s a Chinese born in the USA. His parents were deaf but he didn’t. He wanted to become an actor but then received a diploma in American Sign Language (ASL). He knew it since childhood but wanted to perfect his knowledge. Then he moved to Japan to open his own center called Deaf Japan. He speaks three languages (English, Chinese and Japan) and three sign languages. I met him in his center. He is a brillliant teacher. And my guru.

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Our Day In Kyoto, Japan

I am Katya, 26 and this is my October, 23 in Kyoto. A couple of days ago me and my beloved one came from a 2 weeks trip to Japan and still haven’t adapted ourselves to the time zone. For three days we were at the relatives’ of my boyfriend in Kyoto. He’s an American, but his mom is from Japan and thus all his maternal relatives live here, in Japan.

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