Like many elderly people in Japan, an 83-year-old woman living in the Omiyadai district of Chiba s Wakaba Ward relies on a local bus service to get around.
Yoriko Yamamura is feeling frustrated at her inability to do virtually anything to help Palestinians in their greatest crisis following the unprecedented Hamas raid on Israel that shook the world for its savagery.
Not even higher costs for international flights and living abroad have dampened the demand this summer for overseas study among Japanese college students, after three years of pent-up frustration.