Ross Pendragon comments

Posted in: Truck may have taken wrong road before crashing with train in Yokohama See in context

l lived in Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi and saw truck drivers taking a chance crossing the train lines even after the warnings bells sounded and the barriers start coming down. Truck drivers break so many barrier-poles on the Keiku-sen, it's an every week ocurance and don't care because they are always in such a hurry...does 5 minutes make that much difference...? Michio Motohashi was killed, my condolences to his family, but a 67 he should be retired at home with his feet up watching TV drinking a beer, not driving a truck....but that's Japan. My heart goes out to the injured and all concerned.

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Posted in: Abe apologizes to families of former leprosy patients over discrimination See in context

Thank you so much Mr. Abe. Let us all understad, it was a terrible debillitating disease that was feared and lothed because incurabl and contagous. Therefore, sufferers were laothed and dispised, and treated particularly badly by the Japanese Government, who isolate them and basically left them to die. Especially in Shimo-Meguro area in Tokyo, they were walled in and food thrown over the wall. The only people who helped and treated them were the Chrisitians, God bless them. Now there is a cure and we hope the Stigma is deminishing although not altogether gone. However, if you catch the disease, it still takes 2 years to cure. lt has been a hard fought battle against the disease and discrimination. l think the moral, if there is one, is that we face our problems not hide them behind a wall. A wise and couragous decision and l'm glad Mr. Abe stepped up to the plate, THANK YOU.

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