Disabled best-selling author gets driver's license

Disabled best-selling author gets driver's license

TOKYO, Japan - Hirotada Ototake, a 26-year-old author of a best-selling book about life without normal limbs, shows a driver's license in Tokyo on Sept. 9. Ototake, who wrote the autobiographical ''Gotai Fumanzoku'' (No One's Perfect), was issued the license last month.

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