A lesson action has lifted the lid on years of mistreatment which saw ‘polluted’ victims rounded up and condemned to a life of isolation and neglect Three years after the discontinuance of the second world war,Shinji Nakao stepped off a boat on to Nagashima island, convinced that his life was about to take a turn for the better.
The 14-year-musty had been diagnosed with leprosy, and then a widely misunderstood disease that struck dread into its victims and condemned them to decades of appalling treatment at the hands of the Japanese state.
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Source: theguardian.com