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Posted on 13/01/2012 by
In July 2010 the Japanese publisher Koseisha published poetry, essays and fiction by persons affected by leprosy dating from the 1920s in a ten-volume collection. Kathryn Tanaka, a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago here shares her knowledge of some of these writings.
Categories: Japan
Posted on 05/04/2011 by
Almost four weeks’ since the earthquake and tsunami struck north eastern Japan, the Sumanahalli Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre in Bangalore, Karnataka, has started an official campaign to raise funds for those affected by these two natural disasters that killed thousands and wiped out hundreds of towns and villages.
Categories: India, Japan, News and Notes
Posted on 17/01/2011 by
Dr Fujio Otani, who died at the age of 86 on 7th December 2010, was one of the key players who mediated between the Government, medical professions and persons affected by leprosy to lead to the law that abolished discriminatory laws against persons affected by leprosy in Japan.
Categories: Japan, News and Notes
Posted on 27/07/2010 by
On 19th July The Mainichi Daily News reported that a table used for autopsies on leprosy patients at the Oshimasishoen National Sanatorium had been lifted from the Japanese Inland Sea in early July 2010. Approximately twenty-five years ago, when the autopsy room was being demolished to make way for a new recovery wing, it had been thrown into the sea. This table is to be displayed at an art festival until the end of October 2010.
Categories: Japan, News and Notes
Posted on 11/06/2009 by
Japan passed a Basic Law, designed to protect the rights of people affected by leprosy in Japan and facilitate their full integration into society, in April 2009: the Law on the Promotion of Issues Related to Hansen’s Disease.
Categories: Asia, Japan, News and Notes