It is generally reported in Japan that our father still has weak vision. However, he is totally blind as we wrote earlier.
Even Dr. Nishiyama, the expert witness for the Court, mentioned that the bulbar conjunctiva was cloudy like cotton, and there is no doubt about his blindness.
After he went completely blind, we as daughters were his caregivers and acted as his walking stick.
When we helped him walk, we needed to constantly tell him the course, e.g., "five steps until stairs, three, two, one, entering the stairs; six more stairs, three, two, one, end of stairs".
If we made a mistake with the number of steps or forgot to announce a small ledge, he would have an accident by falling off stairs, etc.
Care was needed not only for walking but also for showering, dressing and eating meals.
When our father lost his sight from both eyes, he tried not to let other people know about it as much as possible. However, as evidenced in the accident of his fall from a stage he went up on for preaching in the public, most people would have known his complete blindness if they saw him.
Honestly speaking, even we, his daughters, who was caring for our father did not know that he was wearing an artificial eye on one side. We came to know about our father's eyes in more detail after he was arrested.
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