Feeling Japan: A Blind Sudanese Man Shares His Experiences

Abdin played in the Japan national championships in 2013. The Tama Hassas finished third.

He walks along the arcade with one of the reporting team. “I can normally hear things 10 meters ahead of me, but on a rainy day it goes down to two or three meters,” he says. “And you can’t smell much when it’s raining, either.”

Abdin walking near his home. “It’s a quiet residential area with a good environment for raising children.”

Reading on a bus. “I wasn’t able to read in Sudan because there were no devices like this.”

My wife gets angry if I sneak off to a conveyor belt sushi bar without saying anything!

Going through a railway ticket barrier. He walks through so quickly that the team interviewing him gets left behind.

Using a computer in the university research lab. Abdin is looking for ways to resolve the civil war in Sudan.

Abdin treasures his two daughters.