Case Study Of Japan

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General Geography:

Country Name: Japan is the archipelago consisted of many islands bounded on the Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean, East Sea and Sea of Japan. [1] There are five main districts: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa. Each district has a main island surrounding by many smaller islands. [1] The capital in Japan is Tokyo.
General Population: As of early 2015, the population is 126,818,019 [2] and the population growth declined by 0.08% from the previous year (126,999,808 from 2014) [2] due to extremely lower birth rate (fewer than 6000 in 2013). [4] For the deaf population in Japan, there is in between approximately 320,000 and 7.5 million of deaf people (2004). [3] The data is not based on all people who were born with full deaf. It also included people who have hearing loss occurred later in their life.
Location: Japan is located in the East Asia continent. [1]

Area: Japan’s total area of 145,914 sq. mi, which is slightly smaller than California (163, 696 sq. mi). [1] [43]

Deaf Population:

Sign Language(s): There are two primary languages in the Japan Deaf Community, SimCom (Simultaneous Communication) and Japanese Sign Language (JSL). SimCom is for non-deaf people often translated Japanese grammar and structure into sign language that can be …show more content…

There is an older Japan table tennis team for the deaf after winning the first Deaflympics Games medal in 1965. [25] Afterwards, the team has 44 gold medals, 29 silver medals and 11 bronze medals. [25] Also, the table tennis is widely known sport in Japan. Recently in 2009, JFD set up their Deaflympics Mini Festival, where 70 people participated, including medallists and athletes joined Summer Deaflympics Games earlier. [27] There is another Japan Deaf team during the 18th Winter Deaflympics for play a hockey with stones.

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