Abstract
The braille system of letters for the blind invented by Louis Braille, composed of 6 raised dots, was authorized in 1854 and adopted in Japan as Japanese braille in 1890. Althoughthe reading was made possible by the braille, it does not care for kanji, so that the information transfer through reading differs widely from that of ordinary readers. The Osaka Prefectural School for the Blind has developed, in cooperation with the Osaka Data Processing Center, Ltd. (ODPC), a new braille system for kanji, called Kantenji, which iscomposed of 2 elements of 8 dots each, and also compiled a kanji-Japanese dictionary of Kantenji system. The kanji are inputted with ODPC code system, which are then convertedinto 8-dot Kanji braille system using a Kantenji table, and outputted through a kanji printer modified to output braille. The structure of the Kantenji system, principles of combining 8-dot braille to represent kanji, and the system flow charts are described.
