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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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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Robot" artificial legs

Hirotada Ototake, a Japanese writer born without arms and legs and best known for his 1998 best-selling memoir, "No One's Perfect," is interviewed in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2019. Ototake has taken part in a project to enable him to walk by himself using electrically operated "robot" artificial legs developed by a Sony laboratory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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Disabled best-selling author graduates from university

TOKYO, Japan, - Hirotada Ototake (L) graduates ON March 25 at Waseda University in Tokyo. Born in 1976 virtually without arms and legs, Ototake published 'Gotai Fumanzoku' (No One's Perfect), about his life, in 1998. The book has sold some 4.5 million copies since its publication.