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Table of Contents
Definition & Situation in Japan
WHO
Literature (Various Writings)
Achievements at Conferences, Workshops etc.
Theme Related Links
Newspaper Articles
Definition & Situation in Japan
Leprosy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy
Leprosy in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy_in_Japan
WHO
MATSUBARA Yoko
YOSHIDA Sachie
Literature (Various Writings)
YOSHIDA Sachie March 31, 2012 "A Study of Policies Regarding Hansenz's Disease in Korea under Japanese Occupation: From the Foundation of the Sorokdo Charity Clinic to the Enactment of the Chosen-Rai-Yoborei"
Core Ethics 8:433-443@
[PDF]
The Nippon Foundation October 11, 2011 "Implementing the Enhanced Strategy"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20111011_Implementing_the_Enhanced_Strategy.html
AWAZU Chikako October 3, 2011 "India President Pledges Support To Leprosy Community Petition Asks Help For Those Who Are Cured"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/current/India_President_Pledges_Support_To_Leprosy.html
The Nippon Foundation August 17, 2011 "Pygmy Aka Tribe In Dire Need of Food Leprosy Medication Is Second Priority Central African Republic Humanitarian Report"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/current/Pygmy_Aka_Tribe.html
The Nippon Foundation August 11, 2011 "Fighting Against the Forgotten Disease Leprosy in Malawi"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/current/Malawi_leprosy.html
The Nippon Foundation August 2, 2011 "Student Volunteers To Work In Leprosy Colony In India"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/current/India_Work_Camp.html
YOSHIDA Sachie June 30, 2011 "Hansen's Disease Is Not Over Yet"@
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/144
The Nippon Foundation March 28, 2011 "Timor Leste Achieves Leprosy Elimination Target"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2011/20110328.html
The Nippon Foundation January 30, 2011 "Micro-enterprises Honored in India"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20110130_Micro_enterprises_Honored_in_India.html
The Nippon Foundation January 25, 2011 "GLOBAL APPEAL 2011: Lesson from Beijing"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20110125_GLOBAL_APPEAL_2011.html
The Nippon Foundation December 24, 2010 "United Nations General Assembly Passes Resolution on Leprosy and Human Rights"@
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/20101224UNGeneralAssemblyLeprosy.html
The Nippon Foundation October 1, 2010 "Human Rights Council adopts resolution on ending leprosy-related discrimination"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20101001_Human_Rights_Council_adopts_resolution.html
TOMINAGA Natsuko February 9, 2010 "Nepal eliminates leprosy"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/current/20100208Nepaleliminatesleprosy.html
The Nippon Foundation January 25, 2010 "GLOBAL APPEAL 2010: Business Speaks Up"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20100125_GLOBAL_APPEAL_2010.html
The Nippon Foundation January 24, 2010 "India's network of people affected by leprosy holds regional meeting in Chennai"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20100124_network_of_people_affected_by_leprosy.html
The Nippon Foundation January 12, 2010 "Media Alert: Leprosy Global Appeal to be held in Mumbai"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/20100121MediaAlert.html
The Nippon Foundation January 6, 2010 "Media Fact Sheet: Leprosy"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/20100119MediaFactSheet.html
MIYASAKA Michio 2009 "AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF LEPROSY CONTROL POLICY IN JAPAN,"
http://www.clg.niigata-u.ac.jp/~miyasaka/hansen/leprosypolicy.html
The Nippon Foundation June 15, 2009 "ASEC-TNF Project: Toward a 'Caring Community'"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20090615_ASEC_TNF_Project.html
The Nippon Foundation April 24, 2009 "Program managers, partners meet in India and agree on new target for 2011-2015"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20090424_Program_managers.html
The Nippon Foundation January 26, 2009 "Global Appeal 2009 : Global Appeal Returns to UK"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20090126_Global_Appeal_2009.html
David Tharp January 19, 2009 "Global Appeal 2009"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/20090119.html
The Nippon Foundation September 7, 2008 "Kolkata conference airs hopes and needs of people affected by leprosy"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20080907_Kolkata_conference.html
The Nippon Foundation June 18, 2008 "Human Rights: History Is Made in Geneva"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20080618_History_Is_Made_in_Geneva.html
The Nippon Foundation January 28, 2008 "Global Appeal 2008: Third Appeal Launched from London"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20080128_Global_Appeal_2008.html
The Nippon Foundation December 31, 2007 "DR Congo Makes Headway"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/events/20071231DR_Congo_Makes_Headway.html
The Nippon Foundation July 13, 2007 "Leprosy: The Long Quest for a Cure"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/20070713LeprosyCure.html
YOSHIDA Sachie January 2007 "Banging the Invisible Wall - When the Quarantine Can Be Abolished?: From the Field Work at the Hansen's Disease Ward" Bachelor's Thesis
James L. Huffman January 29, 2006 "Global Appeal Made in New Delhi"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2006/brief_dtl/2006739/20067391.html
James L. Huffman January 24, 2006 "Global Appeal to end Stigma and Discrimination Against People Affected by Leprosy"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2006/brief_dtl/2006738/20067381.html
James L. Huffman January 20, 2006 "The Delhi Declaration, December 19, 2005"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2006737/20067371.html
The Nippon Foundation January 17, 2006 "Help Former Patients to Stand on Their Own Two Feet"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/work/2003/leprosy/2003615/20036151.html
James L. Huffman August 15, 2005 "Real Voices at the United Nations"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2005/brief_dtl/2005722/20057221.html
James L. Huffman August 11, 2005 "U.N. Human Rights Sub-Commission Passes Leprosy Resolution"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2005/brief_dtl/2005721/20057211.html
The Nippon Foundation August 16, 2004 "U.N. Sub-Commission on Human Rights Resolves to Study Leprosy and Human Rights"@
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004666/20046662.html
James L. Huffman August 5, 2004 "UN Sub-Commission Support for Leprosy and Human Rights"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/media/news/2004/brief_dtl/2004665/20046651.html
The Nippon Foundation June 30, 2004 "Lord Buddha, by Mr. Kei Seki"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004662/20046621.html
The Nippon Foundation April 6, 2004 ""I don't want charity ... I want my dignity.""
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004644/20046441.html
The Nippon Foundation March 30, 2004 "Nippon Foundation Written Statement, Presented at the 60th UN Human Rights Commission"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/work/2004/20046461.html
The Nippon Foundation March 23, 2004 "Yang Qian Mei: HANDA's Help, Her Own Strength"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004645/20046451.html
The Nippon Foundation February 23, 2004 "Mr. Feng Ke Teng: "Do Human Rights Apply to Everyone?""
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004641/20046411.html
The Nippon Foundation February 18, 2004 "The Life of Praksam"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2004640/20046401.html
The Nippon Foundation April 16, 2003 "GAEL 2003: The Yangon Declaration"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2003599/20035991.html
The Nippon Foundation April 16, 2003 "The Leprosy Campaign in India"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/2003601/20036011.html
The Nippon Foundation February 6, 2003 "3rd GAEL Meeting Convenes in Yangon"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200317/2003171_n.html
The Nippon Foundation October 3, 2002 "Update: A Fight Being Won"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/work/2003/leprosy/200324/2003241.html
The Nippon Foundation August 23, 2002 "One Man's Story: Yasuji Hirasawa"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200318/2003181_n.html
The Nippon Foundation August 23, 2002 "The L-Word"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200319/2003191.html
The Nippon Foundation June 19, 2002 ""If India Fails, we all Have Failed.""
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200320/2003201.html
The Nippon Foundation June 3, 2002 "The Tokyo Declaration"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200321/2003211.html
The Nippon Foundation January 31, 2002 "Second Annual GAEL Meeting Held in Brasilia"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200322/2003221.html
The Nippon Foundation July 22, 2001 "The Day I Came Back to Life"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/leprosy/200323/2003231.html
The Nippon Foundation July 10, 2001 "Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation: Vehicle for Elimination"
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/work/2003/leprosy/200325/2003251.html
MATSUBARA Yoko December 1998 "The Enactment of Japan's Sterilization Laws in the 1940s: A Prelude to Postwar Eugenic Policy,"
Historia Scientiarum, The History of Science Society of Japan, vol.8, no.2, pp.187-201.
[MS Word, in English]
TSUCHIYA Takashi 1997
"Eugenic Sterilizations in Japan and Recent Demands for Apology: A Report," Newsletter of the Network on Ethics and Intellectual Disability 3(1):1-4
T Lietman, T Porco, and S Blower@December 1997 "Leprosy and Tuberculosis: The Epidemiological Consequences of Cross-immunity,"
American Journal of Public Health 87(12):1923-1927
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.12.1923
Delizia Flaccavento@"Turkish Association for the Fight Against Leprosy"
http://photophilanthropy.org/gallery-posts/turkish-association-for-the-fight-against-leprosy/
Achievements at Conferences, Workshops etc.
Open Seminar "Considering the Never-ending Issue of Leprosy: Movie Leprosy and Three Acts"(October 24, 2015)
http://www.ritsumei-arsvi.org/en/news/read/id/293
YOSHIDA Sachie November 9, 2011 "A Consideration concerning the Process of Forming Policies on Hansen's Disease under Korean Sovereignty,"
Second Korea Japan Disability Studies Forum, Ritsumeikan University
YOSHIDA Sachie July 9, 2011 "The Actual Situation of Korean Policy against Hansen's Disease: Shorokuto from under Japan's Governance to its Liberty,"
The International Program of the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, Seoul Campus of Kyonggi University
YOSHIDA Sachie November 27, 2010 "Transition of Hansen Disease Policies in Japan and South Korea since 1950s,"
Korea Japan Disability Studies Forum, Seoul, Korea
YOSHIDA Sachie May 29, 2010 "Traps of the Hansen's Disease in History: What Turned How into That,"
The International Program of the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi, The International Research Exchange Meeting, Kyonggi University
YOSHIDA Sachie March 2007 "Banging the Invisible Wall - When the Quarantine Can Be Abolished?: From the Field Work at the Hansen's Disease Ward" The 12th Convention of The Society for Ecological Anthropology, Fukuoka
Theme Related Links
AIFO
http://www.aifo.it/english/gen/activities/activitylep.htm
Battling Leprosy Worldwide
http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/eng/worldwide/leprosy/world_of_leprosy.html
Bethany Colony Leprosy Association
http://bethanyleprosycolony.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
Drug Resistance in Leprosy: Reports from Selected Endemic Countries (WHO) (2009)
http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8426.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, September 1999 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/docstore/wer/pdf/1999/wer7438.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2004 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2005/en/wer8013.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2005 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2005/wer8034.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2006 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2006/wer8132.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2007 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2007/wer8225.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2007 (Additional)(WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2007/wer8244.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2008 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2008/wer8333.pdf
Global Leprosy Situation, 2009 (WHO)
http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8433.pdf
Hansen's Disease for the People (Japanese)
http://shimingakkai.com/
IDEA Leprosy and Human Rights
http://www.idealeprosydignity.org/
Infectious Disease Surveillance Center (IDSC)
http://idsc.nih.go.jp/index.html
ILEP (The International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations)
http://www.ilep.org.uk/
International Leprosy Association
http://www.leprosy-ila.org/do.php/HOME >
Japanese Leprosy Association (Japanese)