Detention room at Hansen's disease sanatorium in southwestern Japan

A restored detention room at the national sanatorium Kikuchi Keifuen is seen in this photo taken in Koshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 26, 2015. Patients who were the target of quarantine policy till 1996 were detained in the room when they went outside without a permit or disobeyed an instruction.(Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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