Isolation of Mentally Handicapped Persons

While listening to my father's story, I recalled a well-known injury case that had brought a complete modification to Japanesee psychiatric medicine.
Do you know of Mr. Edwin Oldfather Reischauer? He was the former American ambassador to Japan. When he was in office in 1964, he was assaulted by a young Japanese man who was suffering from schizophrenia. This incident persuaded the Japanese government to isolate people with mental problems, and they were confined into hospitals and nursery institutions. That's why we didn't see any peculiar people in the streets.
Mr. Reischauer got hepatitis due to a blood transfusion at that time. It led the Japanese authority to change its medical policy on blood transfusions. Besides, it became a cue for the thorough research of hepatitis.
Nothing is improved until something bad happens. It's one of the Japanese faults.

• (Vocabulary)
• a mentally handicapped person 精神障害者
• injury case 傷害事件
• Edwin Oldfather Reischauer  ライシャワー元駐日米大使
• institution [C] (老人・孤児などを対象とした) 施設
• a mental institution 精神病院
• medical policy / politics of healthcare 医療政策
• cue (ある行動を触発する) 合図, 手がかり, きっかけ (cue for)
• Robin's arrival was a cue for music and more wine.