5.21 Woman recalls encounter with blind boy during WWII

5.21 Woman recalls encounter with blind boy during WWII

Noriko Nishio speaks during an interview in February 2015 in Tottori of her experience of working at a mobilization office of the Imperial Japanese Army in Tottori after graduating from high school in the spring of 1945, just months before Japan's defeat in World War II. She talked about an encounter with a blind boy playing the piano in the school building for deaf and blind that housed the office and how disabled children were strongly discriminated against during war time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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