About Nasu Eri

Nasu Eri is a deaf sign language entertainer from Japan.

Eri is a Visual Vernacular (VV) performer, a sign language expression artist, and a sign language entertainer. Born in 1995, in Tokyo, to a Deaf family, she graduated from Nihon University, College of Law, Department of Journalism. She then enrolled in Frontrunners in Denmark between 2019 and 2020 to study the leadership and organisational activities of Deaf people. Since returning to Japan, she appears regularly on NHK’s TV program “Minna no Shuwa” (Sign Language for Everyone), promotes sign language, works as a sign language interpreter, serves as a staff member of Shuwa-emon, an organization for deaf children, manages the Rocho-Kai (Deaf+Ear Meeting), an exchange program for Deaf and non-Deaf people, and serves as a board member of the Youth Division of the Tokyo Federation of the Deaf. In February 2021, she represented Asia at the VV live event organized by the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section. Eri was featured as one of five artists in our International Day of Sign Languages 2021 video series which explored the diversity of sign languages.