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Leper colony Oshima island
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Leper colonies in Japan? This sounds like an echo from a distant past. But they still exist until today. Their inhabitants have been cured for decades- but remain outcasts. Only in 1996 was the enforced strict isolation lifted by law. Most inhabitants stayed in the fourteen now called sanatoriums where they led a miserable life of isolation, hard labour and inhuman treatment. Today they receive adequate care, housing and medical treatment. A report for GEO Magazin Germany about the last survivors on the island Oshima.
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Hiroshi Nomura lives over 70 years on Oshima
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Dr Hideyo Sogo
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Yoshimi Oochi
Lives on Oshima since his early teenage years
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Melody "Loreley" as guidance
Lepra schädigt das Augenlicht
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Emiko Oonishi
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Stranded doll
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Takahisa Yamamoto
Master of pottery
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Housing
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Takashi Tojo
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Boat for Takamatsu