2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Sociological Consideration on the Social Reality of Lepers and theirRefuge in Okinawa Society 1879-1938
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21530544
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Yamaguchi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAMURA Bunya 山口県立大学, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (90305798)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | ハンセン病問題 / 沖縄の〈救癩〉活動 / 青木恵哉 / 沖縄縣 / 沖縄 MTL |
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| Research Abstract |
This research focuses on three themes :
the first theme is the clarification and consideration on the social problems of “lepers” in Okinawa before 1938 when the leprosarium “Kunigami Airakuen” was constructed
the second is on the social realities of the salvation (relief) for “lepers”
the third is on the analyses of socio-cultural properties in Okinawa. Our conclusion is follow. Concerning with the first theme, we investigated miserable facts for “lepers” in Okinawa. Though it was possible to refuge the poor patients lawfully in “Hondo” from 1907, there was the statusof lawless in Okinawa. Concerning with the second, we examined the social action of the salvation for “lepers”. At 1935, social organization ”The Mission to Lepers” in Okinawa (Okinawa MTL) was organized ecumenically. Its social action compelled “lepers”to exclution from Yabu, because of the miss-understanding information was going aroundby some newspapers. Concerning with the third, we analyzed the processes of constructing“Kunigami Airakuen”. Its constructing was owed to Keisai AOKI(1894-1969) who was a “lepers” borned at Tokushima. From a view of peer-relationship, Aoki was possible to make a sense of social trusts and relationships between many patients in Okinawa. Aoki had the various carriers as a inpatient : he had the experiences of “Shikoku-hero”,and of inpatient in prefectural and private leprosarium. Through its careers combined with the impact of lepro-cotage at Kinn,he conceived of the constructing “leprosarium”in Okinawa. He accomplished to work a miracle for Okinawan “lepers” at 1938.
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