"Helen Keller (centre) is introduced to a man with a seeing-eye dog, 3 September 1948. At the right is her Scottish companion and guide, Polly Thompson. Keller's visit to Tokyo gave a boost to government efforts to enact the Law for the Welfare of the Physically Disabled (December 1949). She came at the invitation of a Japanese organisation for the blind (Kyodo)."

From: Takemae Eiji. Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and its Legacy. New York: Continuum, 2002; 422.