Manga "Mugi no Oshima island" depicting sufferings caused by discrimination experienced by leprosy patients was published. A writer is a cartoonist who has a background of visiting a sanatoria when he was in charge of welfare field as a Hyogo prefecture official Kobayashi Kai Fried birds. Mr. Kobayashi who visited Nagoya in the publication campaign said, "If you read as a familiar problem not as a distant past but as you think about what you can do," he said.
"Barley that island" is a former patient who has experienced children who were aborted in the leprosy sanatorium for a while after the war and Satoko of a junior college student who underwent abortion surgery who did unwanted pregnancy, "wheat A story that will come to think of the preciousness of life and stupidity of discrimination meeting encounter. The stage sanatorium is actually present in Nagashima in Okayama prefecture Yukideep Komei Garden ".
Mr. Kobayashi visited the Gwangmyeon garden and the island's "Nagashima Aiyoen" at work during the prefectural officials. Although I retired in 2002 and became a cartoonist, there is also a survival to visiting a sanatoria while I was short of study, "It was in the prefecture and country where I also worked out the isolation facility in the cartoon I thought that it would be an opportunity to know the problem widely, "one day, he wanted to make a problem of leprosy a cartoon.
After 2005, we cover about 20 residents and retired people in both gardens. Initially there was a prejudice of "poor people" to residents, but they were impressed by the cheerful and powerful appearance that has overcome the severe circumstances.
However, I also felt again that the former patients still have anxiety about discrimination. After retirement, Mr. Kobayashi said that she is avoiding interactions with neighbors who are living in the same Hyogo prefecture, Mr. Kobayashi says, "Some people are afraid of a history of medical history and some have to live quietly" .
Although there is no specific model in cartoon characters, the content of the coverage is reflected in societal discrimination and depiction of the sanatoria life, and in addition to abortion / segregation surgery patients are recommended to rename, sanitation facilities I also drew historical facts that used currencies that are valid only.
There is no sanatorium in Aichi Prefecture, but there are also from the prefecture in the sanatorium nationwide. Mr. Kobayashi said, "People who were severed from their bonds with their families and who have not been able to return to their homeland are still living in sanatoria, they want young people to read it, and want to think about various discrimination that remains in society I hope that.
Leprosy was once called "leprosy". Peripheral Let's face it. It is an infectious disease that is affected by nerves and skin, the infectivity is weak, now cures with medication, patients and former patients have undergone persistent discrimination. The country continued the isolation policy of the patient until the abolition of 1996 's Legal Prevention Act.