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In this book, she wrote her experiences in her trips of examination of leprosy patients in remote mountainous areas and islands. In the first story, her team was composed of a clerk, a male nurse and Masako Ogawa. They brought a projector to show village people that leprosy patients should be treated
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Eiko Arai coined a word "Spring in a small island" phenomenon, explaining the wave of support concerning Masako Ogawa. The trend may represent the sentiments of
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patients in remote areas of Japan into hospitalization. It created a sensation in Japan, and was made into a film. She was criticized for accelerating the "No leprosy patients in prefecture" movement and giving an impression that leprosy is to be feared.
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on March 26, 1902. After her marriage in 1920 and divorce in 1923, she entered the Tokyo Women's
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Spring in a small island. A memorandom of a woman doctor Masako Ogawa, Nagasaki Jirou Shoten (in
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