A group of 85 former Hansen's disease patients in South Korea filed a request with the Japanese government Wednesday for compensation for being forced into sanitariums when the peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule.
It is the second such application from a Korean group under the 2001 law to compensate Hansen's disease patients for being forcibly isolated from society and held in special sanitariums.
The first group of 28 applied in December.
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