The in-House Surveillance Barn

In 1900 the mental disability nursing protection law was established in Japan. This meant that the mentally ill were to be confined to their homes. Yoshikas Hara, a filmmaker who spent his time highlighting these surveillance burns took us on the tour with the building. A man named Tomi Toshi was caged in this barn. The situation was so terrible that the law itself was actually abolished in Japan in 1950.