Kwansei Gakuin University

Kwansei Gakuin University, founded in 1889, is a comprehensive university that provides education based on the principles of Christianity. The Sign Language Research Center (SLRC) was established in April 2015 as the first institute researching sign language at a Japanese university, and has been active since 2016 with support from The Nippon Foundation. The SLRC has been contributing to this project by selecting Japanese Sign Language (JSL) words and collecting JSL data for use in machine learning.