Japan's 'leprosy island': The dark history of Nagashima

Nagashima, an island in Japan, once held sanatoriums where leprosy patients were forcibly confined starting in the 1930s, according to France 24. Treatments emerged in the late 1940s, but the government didn't end forced confinement until 1996 — meaning patients who had been cured for decades were still held there.

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