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The Leprosy Prevention Law Protests: 70 Years of the State and Society's Choice of Forced Segregation
The National Hansen's Disease Museum
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Seventy years ago, on August 13, 1953, the All Patients' Association (now the National Council of Hansen's Disease Sanatoriums) protested the Leprosy Prevention Law (October 1952 - August 1953), which demanded revision of the "Leprosy Prevention Law".
The Leprosy Prevention Law protest was a movement to revise the "Leprosy Prevention Law" into a law that respected basic human rights in line with the era when the therapeutic drug Promin and the Japanese Constitution were introduced. Fierce struggles were waged across the country and the patients ventured outside the sanatoriums, making direct petitions and even sitting-in in front of the Diet and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Despite some success, however, the Leprosy Prevention Law was promulgated and enforced on August 15, with articles prohibiting forced incarceration, maintaining order in sanatoriums, and prohibiting inmates from leaving the sanatorium. The law was repealed in 1996, and in 2001, the plaintiffs in the "Leprosy Prevention Lawsuit Demanding State Compensation for Unconstitutional Lawsuit" won their case, resulting in a judicial decision that the law violated the fundamental human rights guaranteed in the Constitution of Japan.
This exhibition looks back on the "Leprosy Prevention Law struggle," a major milestone in the history of the leprosy issue, from the perspective of the government and society, with comments from government and sanatorium officials and Diet members involved in the enactment of the law, and newspaper articles from the time. The event will be an opportunity to think about the current leprosy issue from the perspective of the events of 70 years ago.
The Leprosy Prevention Law protest was a movement to revise the "Leprosy Prevention Law" into a law that respected basic human rights in line with the era when the therapeutic drug Promin and the Japanese Constitution were introduced. Fierce struggles were waged across the country and the patients ventured outside the sanatoriums, making direct petitions and even sitting-in in front of the Diet and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Despite some success, however, the Leprosy Prevention Law was promulgated and enforced on August 15, with articles prohibiting forced incarceration, maintaining order in sanatoriums, and prohibiting inmates from leaving the sanatorium. The law was repealed in 1996, and in 2001, the plaintiffs in the "Leprosy Prevention Lawsuit Demanding State Compensation for Unconstitutional Lawsuit" won their case, resulting in a judicial decision that the law violated the fundamental human rights guaranteed in the Constitution of Japan.
This exhibition looks back on the "Leprosy Prevention Law struggle," a major milestone in the history of the leprosy issue, from the perspective of the government and society, with comments from government and sanatorium officials and Diet members involved in the enactment of the law, and newspaper articles from the time. The event will be an opportunity to think about the current leprosy issue from the perspective of the events of 70 years ago.
Schedule | Aug 13 (Sun) 2023-Dec 10 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.nhdm.jp/events/list/5766/ | ||||
| Venue | The National Hansen's Disease Museum https://www.nhdm.jp/ | ||||
| Location | 4-1-13 Aoba-cho, Higashi Murayama-shi, Tokyo 189-0002 | ||||
| Access | 20 minute walk from the South exit of Akitsu Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro line; From the South exit of Kiyose Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro line, take the Seibu bus and get off at Hansen's Disease Museum. From the North exit of Kumegawa Station on the Seibu Shinjuku line, take the Seibu bus and get off at Hansen's Disease Museum. From Shin-akitsu Station on the JR Musashino line, take the Seibu bus and get off at Zenshoen-mae. The venue is 10 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 042-396-2909 | ||||
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