SUCRA(さくら: Saitama University Cyber Repository of Academic Resources)は、埼玉大学に在籍する研究者の学術雑誌論文、紀要論文、科学研究費補助金成果報告書、学位論文、研究発表プレゼン資料などを登録し、広く世界に発信しています。 埼玉大学に在籍する皆様は、著作物をSUCRAを通じて発信することができます。詳しくは「成果物の登録方法」をご覧ください。
On Monday, March 8, 2021, an obituary arrived from Mr. Akira Tsuji, a curator of the Social Interaction Hall of National Sanatorium Okinawa Airakuen. Mr. Masaharu Kinjo, the chairperson of the residents’ council at Airakuen, passed away that morning. He was 67 years old. Mr. Tsuji said he was quite surprised by Mr. Kinjo’s sudden death because he visited the residents’ council office even last Friday. Due to the COVID-19 situation, only the family of the deceased, some executive members of Airakuen and the residents’ council could attend the funeral held at the mortuary in Airakuen. Someday a memorial meeting for Mr. Kinjo is supposed to be held.
To commemorate Mr. Masaharu Kinjo, we have put together his narratives collected in the interviews that were conducted on both the 14th and 15th of December, 2013. Unlike the other usual life stories, this time we would like to start from introducing the contents of the field notes that we took during the survey trip.
Since Mr. Kinjo was one of the last generations who suffered from Hansen’s disease in Okinawa, his life story revealed the vivid aspects of Hansen’s disease problems in Okinawa after 1970s which are different from the cases of mainland Japan. At that time in Okinawa, the patients were able to get outpatient care, instead of quarantine. Nevertheless, the impact of the Segregation Policy had disturbed the cured patients of Hansen’s disease to live with peace of mind in their home community.
We heard many stories of the heroic and outstanding leadership of Mr. Kinjo as the residents’ council chairperson and he never boasted about his achievements of fighting at the national compensation lawsuit or compiling The Testimony Collections of Hansen’s Disease in Okinawa.
As the residents in Airakuen were super-aged, their space for daily lives became consolidated at the care centers. Mr. Kinjo said, “There is good consolidation and bad consolidation. The knowhow to manage the consolidation makes a difference.” This sharp insight reveals his excellent leadership. He set up an environment for palliative care at the familiar private rooms, not at the lonely hospital ward. He also had a policy not to impound people with dementia. He maintained his own philosophy for the ex-patients in the sanatorium. No one can wipe out the memory of such a person.
傑出した入所者自治会長，逝く : 沖縄愛楽園，金城雅春さん聞き取り《調査ノート》
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