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Since Japan signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007, inclusive education in which students with and without disabilities learn together has been growing steadily in the nation.
Amid calls for implementing “reasonable accommodation” in education under the convention, one visually impaired student at Ohkagakuen University in Toyoake, Aichi Prefecture, realized her dream of studying in the United Kingdom last summer as part of her school program.
Momoha Kubota, 21, is a third-year student in the English department at the university’s School of Liberal Arts. Kubota, who has studied at schools for the visually impaired since elementary school, is now training to become an English teacher.
