JAPAN-DISABILITY-AUTISM-LITERATURE

TO GO WITH Japan-disability-autism-literature,FEATURE by Shingo ITO This photo taken on December 13, 2014 shows Miki Higashida (L), mother of Japanese author Naoki Higashida (R), who wrote "The Reason I Jump" when he was 13 years old, answering questions as her son takes a nap during an exclusive interview with AFP in Kisarazu, in Chiba prefecture outside Tokyo. David Mitchell, the best-selling author of "Cloud Atlas", remembers the day he read the memoir of the 13-year-old Nigashida with autism -- hailing it a "revelatory godsend" that offered a window on the life of his own autistic son. AFP PHOTO / Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP via Getty Images)