The Oku-Nagashima Bridge in Okayama Prefecture has become a symbol of acknowledgement that the segregation policy, under which patients suffered for decades from discrimination, was wrong.
OKAYAMA Newly found photographs of scribbles on prison cell walls at a sanitarium could shed light on the plight of leprosy patients who were locked up for attempting to escape or causing disturbances.
FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture A teenager who has interacted with leprosy patients for years wrote an award-winning essay based on her immersive experiences and her “mission in life.”