News excerpts from Japanese Deaf News, JFD's monthly newspaper:

Issue Article Title
 2010 Feb. 1 Enjoying Deaflympic Sports with the Medalists: Deaflympic Mini Festival
 2009 Dec. 1 Deaf Badge for Relief: disaster preparedness by a local sign language club
 2009 Apr. 1 Inputs on Sign Language Interpreting for the New Lay Judge System -Discussion with the Supreme Court-
 2009 Apr. 1 Learning about the Situation in Mongolia Now: bilateral teleconference conducted
 2009 Feb. 1 20th Anniversary of the National Certification of Sign Language Interpreters
 2009 Jan. 1 "Reasonable Accommodation" - JDF Seminar on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
 2007 Aug. 1 We're Not Getting Any Information! - The Plight of the Deaf During the Chuetsu Oki Earthquake
 2007 Aug. 1 Need for Speedy Access to Information in Emergency Situations
 2007 Feb. 15 Winter Deaflympics Held in Salt Lake City, U.S.A.
 2007 Feb. 1 Showa University Hospital to be the First Japanese University Hospital to Open an Out-patient Clinic for the Deaf
 2006 May 1 Tsukuba University of Technology Enrollment Ceremony
 2006 Apr. 15 ILO Expert Group Meeting on Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Vocational Training
 2006 Apr. 1 New Nursing Care Facilities to Ensure A Happy Future for Aged Deaf
 2006 Mar. 1 7th UN Ad Hoc Committee Meeting on the Conventions for Persons with Disabilities, New York
 2006 Feb. 1 Asian Deaf Friendship Fund (ADFF) Supports Deaf Schools in Myanmar
 2006 Jan. 15 Video Conference of the Deaf Between Japan and Uzbekistan
 2006 Jan. 1 Legal Guarantee of Communication and Support for Living - National Rally
 2005 Jul. 1 "5th Japan Seminar on Sign Language Studies" - Learning from the Philippines
 2005 Jun. 1 The 29th Deaf Information Center in Japan Opened in Hyogo
 2005 May 1 And Now... 4 Years From the Elimination of Disqualification Clauses...
 2004 Sep. 1 International Seminar on the Convention Held in Kyoto
 2004 Aug. 1 A Bolt From the Blue - Unexpected heavy downpour ravaged 28 families of the Deaf in 3 prefectures
 2004 May 1 12 New Deaf Teachers - Aspirations and Dreams for A Better Deaf Education
 2004 May 1 Asian Deaf Friendship Fund Decides to Support the Deaf in Cambodia
 2004 Apr. 1 Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Influences Business Run by Deaf Poultry Breeder
 2004 Apr. 1 The 35th National Winter Games for the Deaf
 2004 Mar. 1 Lectures by International Sign Interpreter Bill Moody - "Is International Sign a Language?"
 2003 Nov. 1 JFD Standpoint Concerning the "Petition for Redress of Human Rights"
 2003 Sep. 1 Peace Message Delivered in Sign Language by a Deaf Survivor
 2003 Aug. 1 What's Going to Happen to Deaf Education? - Report on Recent Movements
 2003 Jul. 1 Symposium on Hearing Screening for Newborn Infants
 2003 Jul. 1 UNESCAP: Moving Forward Toward the Realization of an International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
 2003 Jun. 1 What Will Happen To Our Deaf Schools? MEXT Draws Up the Final Report on "Special Needs Education"
 2003 May 1 Support and Care To the Deaf
 2003 Apr. 1 Survey and Research Consigned by the National Police Agency on the Relationship Between Safe Driving and Hearing Ability
 2003 Mar. 1 Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Withdraws Its Plan to Set An Upper Limit to Financial Aid for Home Help Services for Disabled Persons
 2002 Nov. 15  International Forum on Disabilities to Mark the End Year of the Asain and Pacific Decade
 2002 Nov. 15 High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Conclude the Asian and Pacific Decade
 2002 Nov. 1 Key Words of the 14th WFD RSA/P Representatives Meeting: "Human Rights"


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