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LEPROSY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2018
Kin of leprosy patients seek damages and formal apology from Tokyo over alleged discrimination
In closing her testimony during court proceedings of a class-action lawsuit filed by relatives of leprosy patients, plaintiff Nobuko Harada told the Kumamoto District Court in a quivering voice, "All I want is an apology from the government while I am alive."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 16, 2016
Ex-leprosy patients in Japan call for restored honor after court apology
Former leprosy patients urged the state on Thursday to step up efforts to restore their honor and that of deceased sufferers as they attended a government-sponsored ceremony remembering those subjected to years of discrimination in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Apr 28, 2016
Supreme Court's probe falls short
The top court's probe into 'special trials' held for leprosy patients accused of criminal offenses failed to address whether the defendants recieved justice.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 25, 2016
Supreme Court apologizes for discriminatory treatment of Japan's leprosy patients
The Supreme Court apologizes to former leprosy patients for allowing lower courts to hold criminal trials involving them outside standard courtrooms over ungrounded fears about the spread of infection.
EDITORIALS
Apr 5, 2016
Special trials for Hansen's patients
Rather than merely offer an apology to former Hansen's disease patients for their closed trials, the Supreme Court should look into whether they received fair trials.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 31, 2016
Japan's top court to apologize to ex-leprosy patients over segregation policy
The Supreme Court is considering making a rare apology for the past practice of trying leprosy patients outside standard courtrooms for fear of infection, sources said.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 15, 2016
Former leprosy patients in Japan urged to file for state compensation as final deadline nears
Lawyers are urging former leprosy patients in Japan to file for state compensation over decades of mistreatment before their right to make such claims expires at the month's end.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2015
Decorated U.S. sailor turned missionary, who served at Okinawa leprosy facility, dies at 88
The Rev. Charles Brozat, an American missionary whose 54-year service in Japan included a decade ministering to leprosy sufferers in Okinawa, has died at the age of 88.
WORLD / Society
Jun 11, 2015
Leprosy activists call for greater inclusion at first U.N. discussion
The first United Nations panel discussion on leprosy and those with unrelated disabilities Wednesday pressed for solidarity with sufferers and their greater inclusion in society.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 13, 2015
Leprosy patient's execution questioned 50 years later
The murder trial more than half a century ago of Matsuo Fujimoto, a man afflicted with leprosy, was a bizarre affair.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 18, 2014
Supreme Court probing validity of closed-door trials for leprosy patients
The Supreme Court has begun to examine the legitimacy of the former practice of trying criminal defendants afflicted with leprosy outside the courts, usually at state-run sanatoriums or detention centers, due to fears of infection, sources said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2014
Leprosy activist Kodama dies at 82
Yuji Kodama, a prominent fighter of discrimination against former leprosy patients, died Sunday of lung cancer at a sanitarium in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture. He was 82.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Leprosarium 'prison' dig site opens
The health ministry began work Tuesday at a leprosarium to excavate what was once the only "prison" for rebellious Hansen's disease patients brought in from facilities nationwide, as part of efforts to create a replica of the abusive jail for public viewing next year.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
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A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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