Noboru Ogasawara (1888-1970) was a Japanese physician who worked in the National Sanatorium Amami Wako-en from 1957 to 1966.
Ogasawara was in charge of the special dermatological institute at Kyoto University Medical School. He strongly opposed the Japanese policy of segregation for leprosy patients. With his professional conviction, he confronted Kensuke Mitsuda’s policy of leprosy control, which was built upon the premises of absolute isolation and preventing reproduction, and provoked debate in the Japanese medical community.