Global InformationTatsudaryo incident information
| Tatsudaryō Incident | ||||
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| Date | April 4, 1954 - April 18, 1955 | |||
| Location | Kurokami Primary School Area, Kumamoto, Japan | |||
| Caused by | Public schooling of children born of leprosy patients | |||
| Goals | Public schooling of children | |||
| Methods | Strike of schooling, terakoya schooling, hunger strike | |||
| Status | Occasional conflicts for one year | |||
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| Lead figures | ||||
Matsuki Miyazaki of Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium Top of Parent Teacher Association who was against schooling | ||||
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Tatsudaryō Incident (龍田寮事件, Tatsudaryō jiken) or Kurokamikō Incident (黒髪校事件, Kurokamikō jiken) occurred in 1954, when children of leprosy patients were denied public schooling because parents of the public school children feared their children might contract leprosy. This became national news. The issues were the right of children to attend public school despite their parents illness, the right of the general public to avoid contagion, the accuracy of the predictions made by the medical community, and the rights of the local community over national control of education.