Overview
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government confirmed the MiruTech exhibition for November 15–26 at Deaflympics Square in the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Yoyogi, Shibuya.
- The lineup features 25 exhibitors with demonstrations that include SoftBank’s SureTalk, which converts international sign to multilingual text, and Sainers’ “hearing glasses” for viewing remote sign-language interpreters.
- The Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics opens on November 15, marking the first time the Games are held in Japan.
- Japan men’s volleyball captain Ryuichi Takahashi, 37, enters his fifth Deaflympics aiming to deliver results that raise the sport’s profile.
- First-time national team member Shugo Sugita balances full-time work at Sumisei Harmony with club play, competes as a middle blocker, and notes that deaf volleyball follows standard rules but bans hearing aids, prompting reliance on visual communication; the team trained in Shizuoka on November 1.