Tazu Sasaki (1932-1998)

 I started an English-language Wikipedia article on Tazu Sasaki yesterday. She was a Japanese writer of children's books. She was also, apparently, the first Japanese blind person to have a trained guide dog. In 1962 she traveled to the UK to work with the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association in Leamington for several weeks, and returned to Japan with Roberta, a yellow Labrador. An English newspaper published a photo of Sasaki and Roberta walking down a Tokyo street. Sasaki is wearing a kimono. Later in the sixties, she and Roberta visited the Perkins School in Boston. And she wrote a book about Roberta, which was translated into English (and maybe other languages).

Just thought this would make a good annual post to DSTU.