I hope the dinosaur running wild at Florida would not bring the Jurassic World to us.

Finally I finished the grading for my class of “Deaf Culture and Signed Language” at Kanagawa University. This year the freshmen and the sophomores join the class and the total number of the students is almost 100.

My class of ”Sign Language and Deaf Culture” at Kanagawa University will have two more classes and then the examination for the class would be held in the latter half of this month.

Last Saturday I will host a monthly workshop of Introduction to General Linguistics for JSL signers. Every presentation and talk are only in Japanese Sign Language and written Japanese language. So far we conduct this workshop longer than for 15 years.

Our second girl enjoyed her weekend at Seoul, South Korea in the weekend. One of her club maytes now studied there and guided her friends and her. She enjoyed several local foods and different culture there.

These days, many rose flowers are in full bloom at my small gardens. We enjoy some of them on the dining table.

In the last weekend, I saw Dr. Brenda Nicodemus. I saw her at LI of LSA held at Univ. New Mexico in 1995 where she worked as one of ASL interpreters for the courses.

The anticancer treatments for my partner seems to work well. Today we have better result of the CT test of the affected area. I hope she could survive the hard time. Thank you, God.

Soon I will host the online Linguistics introduction workshop in Japanese Sign Language. Today our topics are onomatopeia origin theory and Sign Language variations. I look forward to enjoying the reporter's presentations.

I believe this policy is professional suicide for the country. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

I watched the French documentray of "In the belly of AI." It focus on the exploitation of Data worker by major AI companies and NGOsuch as Meta, Microsoft and Op en AI. I belueve all people should learn from this documentary about the hidden tragic snd awful facts behind AI. youtu.be/KBrIeGrAFm0?...

Through the window of my research room, I could enjoy the “Koinobori,” the colorful carp banners. With the strong wind, the poke bows in one side. Is it safe? The field is the school ground if an international school.

It is the very nice version of Japanese Sign Language translation of Japanese National Anthem by native JSL Signers, JSL artists group. It includes the interesting features of JSL and I love it. It is one of the best and beautiful versions. youtu.be/gu6SsZqaKbM

On coming Tuesday, my first half year class of “Sign Language and Deaf Culture” will begin 2025 course, which would be the second year for this univerdity. Several JSL/ spoken language interpreter team members would work with me.

After rainy day, it is beautiful day today. I could enjoy the southern India meal set and cherry-blossoms as shown on these pictures.

For ChatGPT, Audism is a specific form of ableism. Is it correct or wrong?

Deaf community should show our voices with this situation because it has the vrry importsnt issue including Sign Language Signer's rights. www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/research/com...

March, 3rd is the doll festival in Japan, which celebrates the health and well-doing of the girls to display a set of ornamental dolls. Some families have the full set of dolls and we have this simple top two set.

Our attempt to publish our new book on Sign Languages in developing countries within this year seems to be going to turn out well with a famous linguistics special publisher in Japan. It will cover China, India, East Africa, West Africa, the Philippines and Brazil.

It is International Mother Language today, which was proclaimed by UN. As their webpage explained, the day is also related to SDGs and the Endangered language issue. We know that the language issue is always related to diversity.

I heard that Mr. Harumichi Saito would have his exhibition at Kabukicho, Shinjuku , in coming March. He is currently one of the most attracted Deaf photographers in Japan.

NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, aired a program introducing the activities of the broadcasting groups in Myanmar such as National Unity government’s broadcasting section and Mizzima. I learned much about the current situations there from the program.

I am so sorry to learn about this news. bbc.com/news/article...

The almost all chapters for my Japanese book on Sign Languages and Deaf Communities in developing countries finally arrived. I will begin to edit of the chapters as the last work for the book.

The site for introduction to our research project and its product in English is publicly opened. Here it is. www.ide.go.jp/English/Rese...

The cyclamen blooms a bit out of season now at my home.

This is Tokyo Tomato and prawn ramen served near Waseda University. The base of the soup is Tomate paste and the soup stock is made from Prawns. Less oil. Yummy.

In Japanese culture, we enjoy soba noodle in the evening of the last day of the year. We call it as “Toshikosji-soba.” For this year we ordered the noodle from Kurekino restaurant located in Azumino, We hope you will have the happier days very soon!

After staying at bed 4 days and nights, in this morning finally took bath. I needed to use the e look ectopic shaver to take care of my beard. Now I feel everything refresh and begin the rehabilitation to normal life after the flu. Thanks, God.

Kansai University posted my last Monday lecture pictures on their webpage as follows. Thank you. www.facebook.com/share/p/15Q6...

One of our work sources lead me to a familiar face @lealaholcomb.bsky.social

The newest book of Japanese Generative linguists group book arrived at a bookshop in the station building. After receiving an e-mail to let me know the arrival, I went to the shop. Fortunately the shop was one of the affiliated shops to our city community money system and it gives 20%

Today I will collect data of a Kansai regional variant of JSL on my way home. In the last year, I gave my first presentation about it at the annual conference of Japanese association of Sociolinguistic Sciences.

Fortunately I was invited to give a lecture on “ Disability and Develpment” at Kansai University yesterday. Main issues for the lecture was MDGs and SDGs from a viewpoint of “Disability and Development”

This is a Shochu liquor from Miyazaki and it has very strong potato aroma. I believe it is almost only for the Shochu lover.

Yesterday I joined this year’s annual conference of Japanese Association of Sign Language Studies and at the general conference of its members,

The Dpro has been one of the most active Deaf awareness groups in Japan. Yesterday it announced the voluntary dissolution with many distinguished accommodations.

Tokyo International Deaf Art Festival is just announced! dasjapan.com/tidaf2025-op...

Our first girl made it for coming Christmas and our health. Thank you!

At our open workshop of Introduction to Libguistics, we learned about “Alignment” to explain ergative/accusative concept. I am interested in the discussion and asked Prof. Naonori Nagaya, who wrote about this part, about any good reference of the discussion. He kindly introduced this book.

Our first girl did the good work for this year’s Christmas tree. Thank you!

This is our simple home-made advent decoration. The picture book in the back ground is the Twinings advent tea calendar.

Longer than 15 years, I hosted an open workshop on Linguistics for Japanese Sign Language native signers. We learned General Linguistics with the help of Introductory (mainly spoken) language Linguistics text books.

the JF Southeast Asia Partnership (JFSEAP) Program www.jpf.go.jp/e/

Here is the answer from ChatGPT to a request of “please explain Audism in the history of Philosophy.” Audism refers to the discrimination or prejudice against individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing,

Today I will say goodbye to my motor scooter soon. I began to ride scooter during my university student time and when I was around 30 years old, I got a formal motorcycle license for the motorcycle with less than 400cc engine. The last scooter was 150 cc one which was available on express highway.

This is the flyer arranged by SAN-Gen-Sha, which published this Japanese sociolinguistic journal, which has three essays on Japanese Deaf community and JSL including my academic article of the answer to a question of “Is the linguistic minority issue human right issue or cultural heritage issue?”

Census Hits Pause On Revising Disability Questions www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/11/15/c...

An activist fights for gender equality and disability rights in Rajasthan　idronline.org/features/div... #DisabilityandDevelopment