Table of Contents

• Figure
• Photographs
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Short History of Hansen’s Disease in Japan
• Part I: Stories as Told by Daughters and Sisters
• Episode 1: Restored Memories
• Episode 2: Thanking Parents for Giving Birth to Me
• Episode 3: Painful Consciousness of Hating My Own Father
• Episode 4: I Should Have Been Nicer to My Father
• Episode 5: Never Ever Moving Away
• Episode 6: Living in the Sanatorium despite Being a Non?patient
• Part II: Stories as Told by Sons and Brothers
• Episode 7: Son of a ‘Leper’
• Episode 8: At the Forefront of the Bereaved
• Families’ Lawsuit
• Episode 9: Forced out of High School
• Episode 10: Growing up without Knowing Parents
• Episode 11: Proudly Born in Wak?en
• Episode 12: Unfulfilled Aspirations
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Further Reading
• Index

About the Author

Ai Kurosaka is Associate Professor at Tohoku Gakuin University. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from Saitama University, and her research focuses on social discrimination in Japan, especially in relation to Hansen's disease and Buraku discrimination.