My Son’s Favorite God Is the One His Parents Threw Away
Editor’s Note: Underlined content is hyperlinked (each underlined element is a clickable link), leading to further aspects of the content shared, here. (This convention is consistent, throughout Wordgathering.) “My Son’s Favorite God Is the One His Parents Threw Away” by Yu Taguchi includes all of the elements listed in the contents, below.
- Description by Yu Taguchi (English and Japanese)
- Contribution to Disability Literature by Yu Taguchi (English and Japanese)
- Read “My Son’s Favorite God Is the One His Parents Threw Away” by Yu Taguchi in English
- Read “My Son’s Favorite God Is the One His Parents Threw Away” (息子がいちばん好きな神は、親に捨てられた神だった) by Yu Taguchi in Japanese
Read an interview with Yu Taguchi as well as an entry in the new ongoing section, Manga Does Not Draw Lines, featuring an interview with Kosuke Sakamoto on Walking in the World of Dementia (認知症が見る世界) published by Takeshobo (竹書房).
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About the Author
Yu Taguchi is a welfare journalist based in Tokyo, Japan. The original story creator of the published manga, The World as Seen by Dementia (Takeshobo, 2023), she has contributed over 50 articles on disability, caregiving, and social welfare to major Japanese publications including Bunshun Online (文春オンライン), Nikkan SPA!, and Shueisha Online (集英社オンライン). She founded and served as editor-in-chief of “Aideal Hiroba,” a disability and minority-focused web platform that reached one million page views in its first year of operation. Yu Taguchi is the mother of a child with a disability. “My Son’s Favorite God Is the One His Parents Threw Away,” her first publication in English, is also published in Japanese—with thanks to the author—in this issue of Wordgathering.