Deaf Disability Japan Podcast Police Sign Language

A No News ‘Seijin no Hi’ [Podcast Episode]

No news on ‘Coming of Age Day!’ ‘Sign Language Link' is provided by the Japan Foundation Telephone Relay Service, a general incorporated foundation based in Tokyo. When police officers leave a kōban or a residential police post, they put up a notice indicating their absence. By scanning the QR code on this notice with a smartphone or other device, users are connected to a video call, initiating a three-way conversation between the user, a sign language interpreter, and an officer at the police station.

By Barrier Free Japan

January 12 2026

GIFU -No news on ‘Coming of Age Day!’ Although there is a report that ‘Sign Language Link’ will be provided by the Japan Foundation Telephone Relay Service, a general incorporated foundation based in Tokyo. When police officers leave a kōban or a residential police post, they put up a notice indicating their absence. By scanning the QR code on this notice with a smartphone or other device, users are connected to a video call, initiating a three-way conversation between the user, a sign language interpreter, and an officer at the police station.

Episode notes: 

‘Gifu Prefectural Police Introduce ‘Sign Language Link’, Available Even if No Police Present’:

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