{"id":7642,"date":"2025-12-26T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:16:06","slug":"japanese-governments-sign-language-science-popular-video-provoked-controversy-and-was-approved-for-deletion-without-scientific-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"Japanese government\u2018s \u201csign language science popular video\u201d provoked controversy and was approved for deletion without scientific basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Japan\u2018s Kyodo Press on December 25, the Japanese Cabinet Office recently released a video about sign language that caused intense controversy on the Internet. The content of the video was criticized as having no scientific basis and hurting the feelings of the deaf-mutes. Currently, this video has been deleted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7643 aligncenter\" title=\"9641c49d10aa6ea0a2f7b28c5ee1f90f\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9641c49d10aa6ea0a2f7b28c5ee1f90f.jpg\" alt=\"9641c49d10aa6ea0a2f7b28c5ee1f90f\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9641c49d10aa6ea0a2f7b28c5ee1f90f.jpg 638w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9641c49d10aa6ea0a2f7b28c5ee1f90f-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><br \/>\nJapan\u2018s Cabinet Office. Photographs<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, from December 3 to 9 is Japan\u2018s Disability Week, and as a routine activity, the Japanese Cabinet Department has collected and released multiple popularized videos. This year, the Cabinet Department collected a total of 7 videos, and after the government\u2018s review of the content, all 7 videos were released.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the videos about sign language has caused intense controversy on the Internet. This video, produced by the Tokyo One Sign Language Popularization Group, argues that sign language has functions such as developing the brain and enhancing memory. A representative of the group said in the video, \u201cFocusing on sign language movements can improve attention, and sign language can also make fingers more flexible,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that part of the content of the video was said to be unscientific and hurt the feelings of the deaf-deaf people. There were comments that the video viewed sign language from the perspective of a healthy person, detaching from the deaf-deaf people who truly need care. \u201cFor deaf-deaf people, sign language is not a puzzle game, but a necessary tool in communication.\u201d Kyodo said that the video was strongly attacked online, and the cabinet has currently deleted the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Japan\u2018s Kyodo Press on December 25, the Japanese Cabinet Office recently released a video about sign language that caused intense controversy on the Internet. The content of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,262],"tags":[4001,4003,4002],"views":87,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}