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top Event Information Event List The National Hansen's Disease Museum Outdoor Exhibition: Beyond the Wall—Photographs Tell the Truth About Issues related to leprosy <Bowroom, 1st Floor, Nippon Foundation Building: November 11th to 20th>

2026.10.20

The National Hansen's Disease Museum exterior exhibition
Behind that wall: The truth about Issues related to leprosy revealed through photographs

We will be holding an off-site exhibition featuring eight photographs Leprosy sanatorium and their residents, which were once "beyond the wall." We look forward to your visit.
*Please note that the exhibition venue is not The National Hansen's Disease Museum.

 

Outline of the event

Nippon Foundation Building, 1st Floor, Ballroom

[Dates]

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 - Friday, November 20, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Until 1pm on the last day)
Closed on Saturdays and Sundays

【venue】

Nippon Foundation Building, 1st Floor, Ballroom
1-2-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8404
*Please check the following page for directions to the venue.
https://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/who/access (Nippon Foundation Building website)


Download the flyer here.


 

Reference photo of the exhibition at Kiboru Atrium
Exhibition at Kiboru Atrium (Chiba City)

 

[Admission Fee] Free

[Organizer] The National Hansen's Disease Museum

 

【Cho Geun Jae Cho Geun-jaeprofile】
Photographer (1933-1997)
He was born in Obu Town, Chita County, Aichi Prefecture (now Obu City) as a second-generation Korean resident in Japan. He began working as a coal miner in his third year of junior high school. He dropped out of Nihon University College of Art and worked for a film company, but after visiting Tama Zenshoen in 1961, he continued to film at Leprosy sanatorium through the 1980s.
His works include "Poetry and Photography: Because Lai is a Long Journey" (Koseisha, co-authored with Yuji Oto) and "Zhao Genzai Photo Collection" (Sokazekan).

 

<<Contact Us>>
The National Hansen's Disease Museum Projects Department, Social Awareness Division
4-1-13, Aoba-cho, Higashimurayama-shi, Tokyo 189-0002
Phone: 042-396-2909

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