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9. And the journalist whose book I quoted in the OP said that afterwards when people

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were living in shelters: "I pictured a school gymnasium in northern England, rather than northern Japan, in which hundreds of people were living and sleeping literally head to toe. By this stage, they would have been murdering one another."

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