Largest Confinement Facility at a Leprosy Sanatorium Reappears After Half a Century; Confirmed by Reporter: Asahi Shimbun

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Part of the remains of a "prison cell" where patients who tried to escape were confined have been unearthed at Nagashima Aiseien (Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture), Japan's first national leprosy sanatorium located on Nagashima Island in the Seto Inland Sea. The remains were buried about half a century ago…