First awareness survey: “Prejudice and discrimination remain serious” Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. More than 60% of people answered that they had no sense of discrimination against Hansen's disease.
Nearly 20% said they felt uncomfortable touching their own bodies, as well as the families of former patients and their own families. Isolation policy until 1996 Relief measures provided for former patients, their families. The percentage of people who felt resistance, which was a combination of "strongly feeling" and "slightly feeling," was 9.3%.