'Otherness' in Japan: Views of Disability and Difference

 

Kenny Fries, an author and faculty at Goddard College in Vermont, undertook his Fulbright U.S. Scholar research grant to Japan in 2005-2006 to gather material for his book, In the Province of the Gods. In his book, Fries shares his experience in Japan as a foreigner with a disability and explores how the United States and Japan view the body and physical difference.

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