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Keisai Aoki (青木恵哉, Aoki Keisai, April 8, 1893 – March 6, 1969) was a Japanese missionary who paved the way to the establishment of Hansen's disease (leprosy) sanatorium Kunigami-Airakuen, now Okinawa Airakuen Sanatorium, Okinawa. At the age of 16, he developed leprosy and later, under the guidance of Hannah Riddell, he also helped many Okinawan people with leprosy in the Ryukyu Islands.