Kamiji hopes that the Paralympic Games in Tokyo will create more opportunities for disabled people in her country.
"In Japan, some disabled people still want to stay inside, but now I think is the time to change their mind because the Paralympics are coming," Kamiji told the International Tennis Federation last year. "Many years before, when we tried to go out out to places, some areas didn't have elevators and there were no assistants to help . . . Now facilities are changing but these people don't know that, so if they go out to the Paralympics they can see it for themselves, then maybe they will want to go out more than before." The Japanese government, she added, "needs to show disabled people how facilities and buildings have changed across the city."
