Keisai Aoki
Missionary, Deceased Person
1893 – 1969
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Who was Keisai Aoki?
Keisai Aoki was a Japanese missionary who virtually paved the way to the establishment of Hansen's disease sanatorium Kunigami-Airakuen, Okinawa, now Okinawa Airakuen Sanatorium, Japan. At age 16 he developed leprosy and later, under the leadership of Hannah Riddell, he helped people with leprosy in Okinawa.
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- Born
- Apr 8, 1893
Tokushima Prefecture - Religion
- Christianity
- Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 6, 1969
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on July 23, 2013
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