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Patients Adrift: The Elderly and Japan's Life-Threatening Health Reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Hiratate Hideaki  and
John Junkerman
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Nakata Takako, 85, runs a small furniture store in Osaka. She lives alone in a wood-frame building that contains both her residence and the shop. Married during the war, she and her husband started the business after the war ended. They raised two daughters. Her husband died some 25 years ago, and she has run the business alone since then.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 2008 , e12
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