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What an appauling speech. While I'm sure this inhuman attitude to the rights of individuals would be held by a minority of Japonese people, it seems to me that some blame for this must rest with the Japanese education system's failure to teach the full history of events. Japan has for too long lived in a coccoon if ignorance with respect to the full contexts of many of the attrocities of WW2. It's about time this was corrected before we see the rise of a new nationalism in Japan. Ignorance of history is very dangerious. We as a global community cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past.
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I think if very old people need to use them they should be free if they have a low income.…
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