Yuji Sato, who is hearing impaired, has a motto: to be like an "active volcano" as long as he lives.
His immediate goal is to study at an American Sign Language university in the United States.
Congenitally deaf and born to hearing-impaired parents, Sato, 23, takes a top ASL course once a week offered by the Japanese ASL Signers Society while working at a leading computer-related company.
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