Japan's library for the blind

By Er, A. W. Bryson TOKYO
THOUSANDS of sensitive fingers find sight and Christian insight through the Japan Catholic Blind Library.
Founded 12 years ago by a compassionate Japanese priest with a few Braille S01111111eN, today it has nearly 2,000 volumes, including lives of the saints, norks on apologetics and general (..ailtolie literature.
"My own 'mother's blindness 'nosed me to this/form of apostolate to the blind," Father Gregory Tsukamoto explained.
"Haling mastered the Japanese Braille writing tienjil," he added, "I was faced with the formidable task of finding solunteers and having them trained to hand print Catholic books and treatises into Japanese Braille. Today I have 90 generous volunteers from all over Japan co-operating in this work.'
"The remarkable feature of the whole operation," Father Tsukamoto went on. "is that only about one-third of both the volunteer workers and the blind users of the library are Catholics."
The library, located here in the National Catholic Conference of Japan building (Ibis country's equivalent of the National Catholic Welfare Conference), loans its volumes on request to blind people all over the country. HUM1111£ free postage to the blind facilitates the operation.
"Over the past 12 years many hose embraced the Faith both among the volunteer workers and the blind themselses," Father Tsukamom concluded.