退所者どうしで結婚したけれど…… : ハンセン病療養所退所者女性からの聞き取り《調査ノート》

国立ハンセン病療養所から退所，社会復帰して暮らす60歳代後半の女性のライフストーリー。 匿名希望Aさん（女性）は，1943（昭和18）年，九州地方生まれ。もの心つく前に，父親が星塚敬愛園に入所。母親がひとりで百姓をして子どもたちを育てた。Aさん自身も，1956（昭和31）年1月，小学校6年生のときに，敬愛園入所。長島愛生園の岡山県立邑久高校新良田教室に5期生として学ぶ。大阪大学の研究所で働けることになったが，敬愛園の父親が癌になり，医師から看病を勧める手紙がきて，わずか1年の勤務で敬愛園に戻る。父親の葬儀の場面での身内の対応から「実家に自分の居場所はない」と思い知らされ，故郷を捨てて，駿河療養所に入る。23歳のとき，新良田教室時代に知り合っていた退所者男性と結婚，静岡で暮らす。ハンセン病患者であったことを隠して生きる生活のなかで，さまざまな不条理の体験を重ねる。 Aさんは初めての子を妊娠したとき，ハンセン病を嫌っていた夫と姑の反対にあい，中絶。ふたたび妊娠。産む決意を固めるが，不安が募り，医者にハンセン病の既往症があることを相談したところ，すぐさま駿河療養所に連絡されてしまう。病院を替え，難産の末，女児を出産，吸引した際の医師の処置の不手際により，聴力を失って生まれている。――その後，Aさんは男の子を2人産んだ。 ハンセン病違憲国賠裁判が始まる少し前のころ，年老いた母親の世話もあって，夫と別居し，故郷に戻ってから，自分の子どもたちやごく限られたひとにのみ，自分自身の病歴を打ち明けるようになった。聞き取りは，2012年9月25日，星塚敬愛園の面会人宿泊所「星塚荘」にて。聞き取り時点で69歳。聞き手は，福岡安則，黒坂愛衣，足立香織，豊田みなみ。――自分のライフストーリーを「洗いざらい」他人に語るのは，はじめての体験だったという。聞き取りに応じることを約束したものの，聞き手はいったい「どんなひとか……」と思いまどいもし，また，何を話したらいいのか，ちゃんと話せるだろうかと，「今朝の2時ごろまで，ああだった，こうだったって，考えちゃったりした」とのことであった。 2013年3月17日，やはり敬愛園の「星塚荘」にて，原稿確認の作業をし，匿名化を条件に公表の了解をいただいた。なお，補充の語りは《 》で表記した。 This is the life story of a woman in her late 60s who was released from a national Hansen's disease sanatorium and re-entered society. Ms. A was born in Kyushu in 1943. Her father was confined to Hoshizuka-Keiaien, a Hansen's disease sanatorium in Kagoshima prefecture, when she was quite young. Her mother had to take care of her children by farming. Ms. A herself was sent to Keiaien in January 1956 when she was in sixth grade. She attended the Niirada branch of Oku High School, which was built as a special school for Hansen's disease patients in Nagashima-Aiseien, a Hansen's disease sanatorium in Okayama prefecture. After graduating, she worked at a research institute in Osaka University but had to quit after only one year to return to Keiaien because she received a letter from the doctor informing her that her father in Keiaien had cancer and needed her help. She found that her home was not a good place to live when she experienced negative attitudes from her relatives towards the history of her illness during her father's funeral, so she re-entered Suruga-Ryōyōjo, another sanatorium in Shizuoka prefecture, because she felt that there was nowhere else to go. When she was 23 years old, she became married to a man who had also attended the Niirada branch of Oku High School and had also been released from Nagashima-Aiseien. She then began her married life in Shizuoka. Though she had hidden the fact that she was an ex-patient of Hansen's disease, she still experienced much social injustice. When she became pregnant with her first baby, she was coerced to abort her child because her husband and mother-in-law were worried about the potential of transmitting Hansen's disease to the baby. She became pregnant a second time and decided to give birth to her child. However, she could not help but worry about how the disease might affect her own health and the future of her child, so she consulted her doctor. The doctor then reported this to Suruga-Ryōyōjo, so she changed hospitals and gave birth to a girl. The delivery was difficult, however, and the doctor made a mistake during the vacuum-assisted delivery. As a result the baby was born deaf. Several years later, Ms. A also gave birth to two boys. A little before the beginning of the lawsuit for the unconstitutionality of the Segregation Policy, she came back to her hometown alone to take care of her aging mother and confessed her history of Hansen's disease to a select group of close family and acquaintances, including her children. This interview was conducted on September 25th, 2012 at Hoshizukasō, the lodge for visitors in Hoshizuka-Keiaien. Ms. A was 69 at the time of the interview. The interviewers were Yasunori Fukuoka, Ai Kurosaka, Kaori Adachi, and Minami Toyoda. Ms. A said the interview was the first time she confessed her whole life story to other individuals. She also said she was up until 2:00 a.m. the night before the interview thinking: “What kind of people might the interviewers be?”, “What should I tell them, and how?”, “How can I share my life story effectively?” On March 17th 2013, Ms. A approved the final draft of the interview transcript on the condition of anonymity.textapplication/pdfdepartmental bulletin pape

Characteristic and mechanism of Cu(II) extraction with polymeric particle with interconnected spherical pores impregnating with LIX84-I

LIX84-I was successfully immobilized and encapsulated in polymeric particle. Characterization of Cu（II） extracted into the polymeric particles impregnated with LIX84-I was also performed. Cu （II） ions were successfully extracted from an acidic solution and a constant value at a higher initial concentration of Cu（II） in the aqueous phase was achieved. Complex formation between Cu（II） and LIX84-I was identified via visual identification of a green cloudy powder. The extraction behavior of Cu（II） with the polymeric particles conformed well to Langmuir-type adsorption. However, when considering the purity of LIX84-I, it was suggested that two LIX84-I molecules reacted with one Cu（II） ion in the polymeric particles. Furthermore, the Fourier transform infrared spectrum showed an interaction between the polymeric particle wall and extractant. In addition, the electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum indicated that the structure of the LIX84-I-Cu（II） complex in the polymeric particles is a distorted octahedral structure composed of two LIX84-I, which consist of two nitrogen and two oxygen atoms, and two water molecules in axial positions of complex molecules, and its geometrical structure is similar to that in the solvent extraction system

Search for \bar{B}^0 →Λ_c^+\bar{Λ}_c^- decay at Belle

We search for the doubly charmed baryonic decay \bar{B}^0 →Λ_c^+\bar{Λ}_c^-, in a data sample of 520×106 B\bar{B} events accumulated at the Υ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^- collider. We find no significant signal and set an upper limit of B(\bar{B}^0 →Λ_c^+\bar{Λ}_c^-)< 6.2×10^{-5} at 90% confidence level. The result is significantly below a naive extrapolation from B(B^-→　Ξ\begin0\c\end\bar{Λ}_c^-) assuming a simple Cabibbo-suppression factor of |V_cd/V_cs|^2. The small branching fraction may be attributed to a suppression due to the large momentum of the baryonic decay products, which has been observed in other charmed baryonic two-body B decays.journal articl

Evidence for Direct CP Violation in B0→K+π-Decays

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A Report on the Placement Test and Intermediate Level Japanese Classes

From 2003, the International Student Center has been developing new General Education Japan classes and Placement tests accompanying them, in an effort to develop the Japanese launguage curriculum for international students (Ogawa･Maruyama2006),(Ogawa･Maruyama･Okuno2004,2006). This year marks the fifth year of this project. This report will examine the following: 1. Summary of Placement Test, results, analysis and revision. 2. Summary of 2007 academic year Japanese classes for intermediate level. 3. Results of Retest for students who taking intermediate level Japanese classes. 4. Suggestions for improving intermediate level Japanese classes 5. Accomplishments and future goals.departmental bulletin pape

A representative section of the PSI-MI controlled vocabulary displayed in the Ontology Lookup Service

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Broadening the horizon – level 2.5 of the HUPO-PSI format for molecular interactions"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/44</p><p>BMC Biology 2007;5():44-44.</p><p>Published online 9 Oct 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2189715.</p><p></p