Kirk here with a follow-up to my post about Hansen’s disease in Kumamoto. That post is here:
https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/6029416413798407
Anett wrote in a comment that she recommends visiting the Riddell & Wright Memorial Hall. I haven’t gone yet but it’s been on my list of places to visit for a long time now. The poster you see with this post indicates that an exhibition is in progress to celebrate 125 years since the facility’s establishment. But, as I write below, they seem to be closed now for COVID-19. Their website says they will reopen on October 1st.
Here’s a picture of the memorial hall:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Riddell-Wright_Memorial_Hall.JPG
And here’s the best English-language page that I have been able to find about the facility:
http://www.qsr.mlit.go.jp/suishin/story2019/english/06_3.html
There’s an announcement on the Japanese website for the facility that says that, as I wrote above, it has been closed due to COVID-19 but will open again on October 1st, 2021:
http://riddell-wright.com/memorial-hall/
It’s also possible to find the complete text of a book about Hannah Riddel that was published in 1937. I used the text to make a long pdf file that I plan to read on my iPad.