Last year a series of mishaps shook our faith in various things we have grown to trust over the years, from the H-II rocket failure and the crumbling tunnels of our shinkansen lines to the nuclearcriticality accident in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture.
The same thing could besaid about state policies.
Rather thanmoving forward, the state decided to regress by delaying collection of premiums for the public care insurance system for the elderly, which begins in April. It also recently agreed to delay, by a year, the scrapping of the deposit protection system.