Regarding the June 20 story “Osaka's second merger push faces pitfalls from pandemic, Abe's poll woes,” before the Tokyo Metropolitan Government merged their wards from 35 to 22, there had been Fukagawa Ward and Joto Ward, which are now called Koto Ward. A lot ...
‘Data government’ shouldn’t replace government by the people
In my June 12 letter to the editor, “New international order versus nature,” I parenthetically said that I hope Yoichi Funabashi was joking when he wrote in praise of “data government” (“Time to build the post-pandemic world order,” June 9). He asserted that societies with ...
