Matsuki Miyazaki of Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium Top of Parent Teacher Association who was against schooling 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.
Another option was to allow the Tairo-in Sanatorium, or Tairoin Hospital take care of the children with funding provided by the leprosy prevention association.
In 1942, the Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium insisted that Kumamoto City should integrate the primary school students, as well.
[5] Twenty-three primary aged children were involved:[6] Matsuki Miyazaki was a physician, leprosy specialist, and Director of the Kyushu Sanitorium.
In December 1953, he met with the principal of the Kurokami Primary School to ask him to consider admitting children of leprosy patients.
Miyazaki then sent a formal request to the Kumamoto District Legal Affairs Bureau asking that discrimination in schooling should be halted.
[8] The Kumamoto District Legal Affairs Bureau expressed the opinion that 1) In four other leprosy sanatoriums, there had been no trouble integrating students without infection.
The three ministries of Japan [9] of Education, Justice and Welfare expressed the view that denial of schooling would be illegal.
The Ministry of Welfare stated that proper health maintenance could not lead to the infection of leprosy.
The ministry of education thought that pupils should attend the school without discrimination, since there was no possibility of infection.
On March 1, the following policy was established by the Kumamoto District Legal Affairs Bureau that 1) the city education committee should ensure that the pupils attend the public school starting April 1, 1954; 2) the Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium should give more strict health maintenance to the pupils.
Some of the members of PTA stated that they would favor integration if a third party would guarantee that the prospective attendees had not been infected.
[11] On April 2, a health examination of the four pupils, under question, was conducted at the Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto University.
The opposition movement side started a type of Terakoya education, namely unofficial private schools at 17 sites.
[15] The hunger strike continued over 155 hours when it was stopped by the mediation of Morio Takahashi, the President of the Kumamoto College of Commerce.
The children were encircled by classmates of the pro-schooling movement and special attention was given to school lunch.
Starting in the fall of 1955, the children of the Tatsuda Ryo were secretly sent to various institutions and homes and relatives.