ABSTRACT
The problems of Hansen’s disease (commonly known as leprosy) in modern Japan has been characterized by a continuous segregation policy for the 90-year period, from 1907 to 1996. Hansen’s disease is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The disease is not fatal in most cases, but its chronic nature tortured sufferers for many years if they did not receive proper treatment. This characteristic of the disease made the policies for its treatment more complicated since planners had to design a long-term recuperation program.
