Born with white hair, pale skin and failing eyesight, Nobuyuki Ishii spent almost 30 years not knowing why he was different.Today, the 52-year-old from Chiba Prefecture has transformed that painful time into a mission: helping others with albinism live with strength and dignity.For more than two decades, Ishii has traveled across Japan at his own expense, meeting people with the rare genetic condition that prevents the body from producing melanin, the pigment that gives color to the skin, hair and eyes.In Japan, the incidence of albinism is about one in 20,000, meaning there are roughly 6,0…READ FULL ARTICLE
