The governing Liberal Democratic Party has decided to forgo fielding disabled celebrity author Hirotada Ototake in the upper house election this summer after revelations he committed adultery ...

The memoir that Hirotada Ototake published in 1998 propelled him to stardom in Japan. No One’s Perfect is his true-life story of struggling to get on in Japanese society after being born with no ...

Ototake, with no arms and legs due to a congenital disease, had come to symbolize those with disabilities in Japan. Also in his statement, he admitted to what he described as "a sin so serious I ...

Ototake doesn't necessarily need the LDP to win. He's famous, and if he does decide to run — either independently or for another party — there's a chance he can still win.

And Hirotada Ototake's former partner Hitomi is also suing the five women who he had affairs with during their marriage. In a statement after his affairs were exposed, the former sports journalist ...

Alongside her will be Hirotada Ototake, who last year dealt with a scandal of his own when it was revealed in March by a tabloid magazine that he’d had affairs with five different women since the ...

Tokyo - Born without arms or legs, Hirotada Ototake inspired Japan a decade ago with a best-selling book about his unflagging strength and determination to lead a fulfilling life. Now he is taking ...

(Ototake) I believe disabled athletes have been considered within the tale thought up by everyone. In other words, that the disabled are below the able-bodied. As someone who was born with and has ...

Best-selling author Hirotada Ototake, who was born without arms and legs, walked more than 50 meters on Sept. 28 with the aid of robotic legs developed by a research laboratory. Taking rests ...

"There are many people who lose their legs after they were born but hope to walk again. I am assisting with spreading the word to people that there is a technology that can help them walk again, A ...

“My dream is to create a peaceful world,” Ototake said, in an interview after his first days in the classroom.