For the past year and a half, Bengt Yamada has been making the rounds of Tokyo's foreign embassies together with people with disabilities, mostly children, to help tell their stories.He hopes to have visited all 150 embassies to advocate for a truly barrier-free world for the disabled by the time -- coronavirus pandemic permitting -- the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Paralympics is held in Japan's capital next year.Yamada, who is of mixed Japanese and Swedish parentage, began his odyssey after meeting a number of children with disabilities when his 9-year-old son was hospitalized for a congenital …READ FULL ARTICLE
