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I really don't know what to do. I am in the hospitality industry so I can't work from home and can't rely on my parents who live far away.

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Ayako Sasaki, 35, whose daughter attends a public elementary school in Akita, referring to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call for schools to close until early April. Many working parents have no one to look after their young children.

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I don't think the party matters. Too much gov't in peoples lives period.

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"I really don't know what to do." Stop voting for the LDP, for starters..

Interesting comment.

One might think the hype is politically motivated and extremely exaggerated for some reason..... :)

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I guess the only choice she has will be to send her daughter to live with her parents for a month. May not be a bad thing if the grandparents have a nice big inaka home with a garden. But just in general, a change of scenery for the little one might do her good and its only for a month or 2.

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