As everything get more convenient, things also, in other ways, become more difficult.
The "laid back" and "all providing" system in Japan has changed dramatically over the past five years under the Koizumi administration, which has dismantled and reduced many key provisions.
It is a time for the nonprofit world, churches and other groups to fill the void and return to how things used to be done in Japan -- when the community took care of itself.
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