Satoshi Fukushima biographical papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: RITDSA-0068

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Satoshi Fukushima biographical papers include a current biography, vitae, correspondence and article written about Mr. Fukushima. There are copies of an interview with his wife in a Japanese magazine, two CD's detailing his life, and two books written in Japanese and signed by Mr. Fukushima.

Dates

Creation: circa 2003 - 2011

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical / Historical

Satoshi Fukushima is a professor at the Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in disability studies. He is deaf-blind, losing his sight at the age of nine and becoming totally deaf-blind at the age of eighteen. In 1987, he became the first deaf and blind person in Japan to graduate from college, and he was also the first to earn a graduate degree, in disabled children's education.

Fukushima says he has one major goal to accomplish: he wants to establish the Japanese equivalent of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, a pioneering educational, research, vocational and rehabilitation center for the deaf-blind in America.

Dr. Fukushima presented a talk at RIT/NTID in October 2011.