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This interview is the life story of a man in his 90s living in Hoshizuka-Keiaien, the national sanatorium. Mr. Shoukou Ueda, the interviewee was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1923 and grew up in Kaghoshima prefecture after he became 5 years old. He got Hansen’s disease when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school and had been an outcast. He was graduated from only elementary school and helped farming work of his family. He was sent to Hoshizuka-Keiaien when he was 18 years old through so-called the Grand Confinement in July, 1941. Since that time he has lived in the sanatorium for over 70 years.
His life story begins with the memory of his father who had served as a town assemblyman of his hometown after retiring from the navy. He talked about his hometown memory through the memory of his father.
At the same time, Mr. Ueda who had served as the president of Shinshu-Doaikai, the society supporting believers of the Jodo-Shinshu sect was telling the story through the tanka (Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) that Mr. Goro Yamanaka, a senior resident of the sanatorium built Hoshizuka-Temple in the sanatorium with the donation from all over the country. Mr. Ueda is a devout Buddhist believer.
The final report of the Investigation Conference of the Problems of Hansen’s Disease (2005) emphasizing the part of the religion’s function as the tool to undermine the sanatorium residents’ criticism on the Segregation Policy under the Leprosy Prevention Law. However, as the title of this research note, “A Devout Buddhist Led the Van in the Compensation Lawsuit against the Government” tells, Mr. Ueda was one of the 13 members of the plaintiffs in the first lawsuit against the Unconstitutionality of the Leprosy Prevention Law at the Kumamoto local court in 1998. We believe it is essential to review the meaning and function of religion in the Hansen’s disease sanatoriums.
Mr. Ueda said that his younger sister’s word saying, “You my brother had a hard time, too” made him stand as the plaintiff of the lawsuit. As a matter of fact, his sister and two brothers received marriage discrimination just because they were the family of a Hansen’s disease patient.
This interview was practiced in June 20th in 2010. It took four and a half hours through the before noon and the afternoon. Interviewers were Yasunori Fukuoka, Ai Kurosaka and Sajik Kim. Although a follow-up interview was practiced in June 28th in 2014, we have to omit the interview due to the lack of space. We finally verified the contents of the interview with Mr. Ueda by the format of reading and listening in February 24th 2015. We are happy that we can publish this interview with Mr. Ueda while he is still in good health.
篤信の仏教徒が国賠訴訟の先頭に立つ : ハンセン病療養所「星塚敬愛園」聞き取り《調査ノート》
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