DICTIONARY IN BRAILLE
Blind Woman’s Feat (By a Reuter Correspondent) A sightless Japanese woman recently completed the first English-Japanese Braille dictionary ever compiled after 16 years of painstaking labour and research. The author of the work is Akiko Minami, a 36-year-old resident of Sakai in the Osaka Prefecture.
Akiko lost, her eyesight when she was 16. Recognising the need for a dictionary, which did not exist in Japan, and knowing the desire of many blind Japanese to be able to read English books, she started the laborious task of preparing the Braille dictionary in 1947.
After first translating both Japanese and English words into the Braille symbols, she carefully reviewed the meanings and then sen! the compilation to the engraver. The plates were completed last year and the completed dictionary consisting of pages in 71 volur es, was finally published recently.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30226, 3 September 1963, Page 18
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