Kirk here. Something that happened last year was mentioned in a more recent article:
“Last year, the National Sanatorium Kikuchi Keifuen in Koshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, admitted that not less than 389 residents who died there were anatomized over more than half a century.”
If you are interested in the sad history of the confinement and abuse of Hansen’s disease patient’s in Kumamoto and Japan, please check out the following links:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14204848
Search for “Keifuen”: https://www.facebook.com/page/123734781033296/search/?q=Keifuen Search for “Hansen’s” https://www.facebook.com/page/123734781033296/search/?q=Hansen%27s
