7 matches out of all 3,298, 1 to 7 displayed.
| 1944 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園In this year, patients were forced by the army into the sanatorium [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1945 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園By the end of World War II, Okinawa was under US military administration and both Airakuen and Miyako Ryoyosho Sanatoria were under US military administration. (Ohtani 137) [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1958 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園Colonel A H Marshall, the US military administration in charge of social welfare, attended the International Leprosy Congress in Tokyo and later published in Ryukyu Shinpo that the Leprosy Prevention Law was unnecessary and he called for a change in policy. (Ohtani 139) [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1959 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園Col A H Marshall lectured on out-patient/domiciliary treatment in order to begin a movement for a change in policy. Ohtani states that this "initiated public awareness on this issue and later materialised as the Ryukyu government's establishment of the New Hansen's Disease Prevention Law and the implementation of domiciliary treatment." (138) [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1960 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園"Dr Masashi Namba, the Director of Medical Affairs Department of Tama Zenshoen Sanatorium, and Dr Tadashi Takizawa from the Ministry of helth and Welfare visited Okinawa to study how Hansen's disease was being delath with. They submitted their observations and opinions as a report. During the course of their visit, they learned that the treatment of Hansen's disease had reached a major turning point dating from the statement that Colonel Marshall had made in 1958. Their report also indicated that the `Hansen's Disease prevention Law', unique to Okinawa was enacted the following year (1959) as a direct result of the colonel's statement. … It was obvious that what was being implemented in Okinawa was revolutionary." (Ohtani 138) [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1972 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園The advances made in Okinawa were all erased when the administration of Okinawa reverted to Japan in 1972. With the return to Japanese administration, Okinawa too came under the jurisdiction of the (New) Leprosy Prevention Law, and elelven years of good work was terminated. (Ohtani 138) [Leprosarium] [Japan] |
| 1995 | National Sanatorium Okinawa Airaku-en 国立療養所沖縄愛楽園As at this date, the sanatorium was located at 1192 Aza-sumide, Nago-shi, Okinawa Prefecture [Leprosarium] [Japan] |