I read an article on The Guardian's website about Lego making a new version of its toy bricks featuring braille. The braille bricks are the same shape as regular bricks but the studs on top have been rearranged to be individual letters and numbers in the braille alphabet. Lego said it wants to encourage blind and visually imparired children to explore new ways of learning to read and write. Apparently fewer young people are learning braille because of audio books and computer programs. The new bricks will first be sold in the US, Brazil, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, and Norway, then 13 additional countries in 2021. The article didn't say what the additional countries will be.
That got me thinking about Japanese Braille, which has to be different because Japanese uses three different kinds of characters, not letters - Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana.
I don't know braille in English, so I don't know how this compares. This is a beer can (photo from Wikipedia).
There is a long explanation on Wikipedia - Here. Kind of interesting, I think.
