Nippon Foundation chief Sasakawa

Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Japanese nonprofit organization The Nippon Foundation, delivers a speech in New Delhi on Jan. 30, 2019, calling for an end to the discrimination and stigma suffered by leprosy patients. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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