In 1952, at the time of the death of the empress, the name of the Leprosy Prevention Association was changed to Tofu Kyokai.
The movement and its slogans, for example, "donate 10-tsubo houses (33.058 square meters) to sanatoriums", were publicised in newspapers, radio, film advertisements, and through religious groups, schools and other organisations.
For example, a Jodo Shinshu school founded an association called Otani Komyokai to popularise the movement.
[citation needed] The forced hospitalisation increased the leprosy stigma of the patients, their families and their neighbourhoods.
[citation needed] Masako Ogawa was a Japanese physician who worked at the Nagashima Aiseien sanatorium.
[8] [9] On 31 December 1947, the Japanese government's Ministry of Interior Affairs, which had been responsible leprosy control, was abolished.
In 1949, the government advised that training courses for physicians and technicians should begin; physical examination of all citizens should occur and patients should be hospitalised, even on rumour.
In 1952, Matsuo Fujimoto, an hospitalised leprosy patient from Kumamoto, was tried, found guilty and executed for murder.
By 1955, the government bodies responsible for control of leprosy included the ministry of welfare; the prefectures; the departments of public health and medicine; the section of tuberculosis prevention and the national sanatoria.
[10] Physicians who lectured for the movement included Kensuke Mitsuda, Fumio Hayashi (doctor), Isamu Tajiri and Mamoru Uchida.
In 1931, our Otani section started an Ohtani Komyokai in order to advance the no leprosy in our prefecture movement in accord with Kensuke Mitsuda, without hearing the opinion of Noboru Ogasawara.