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Okayama: Experience Life as a Leprosy Patient Quarantined in Japan's Seto Inland Sea at Newly Opened Facility

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By Atsuko Nakata / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

15:40 JST, December 20, 2025

SETOUCHI, Okayama — An experience-based facility recently opened that allows visitors to experience how it felt to be a leprosy patient isolated in Japan’s first national leprosy sanatorium on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, in accordance with national law at the time.

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