A photo taken during a visit by Helen Keller, a noted humanitarian who overcame being deaf and blind, to Gifu Prefectural School for the Blind in 1937 has been discovered at a late student's house and was donated to the school.
School officials were delighted at the discovery since many of the school's photos and documents of the time had been destroyed in the July 1945 air raids.
"It is a precious photo and we would like to carry on the message of what Helen Keller tried to convey her entire life," said Toru Hayashi, 58, the school principal.