John W. wrote:
> Rodney Webster <rgw_news001@knot.mine.nu> wrote in message news:<rgw_news001-005E92.23205712102004@news.individual.net>...
> 
>>In article <416B533F.9040200@yahoo.com>,
>> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't; my mother has MS, and never visited me in Japan and if I lived 
>>>there today probably never would; being partially handicapped in Japan 
>>>is probably worse than being totally bound to a wheelchair. Somehow I 
>>>don't think that young lady had any such affliction, though I certainly 
>>>hate to assume. At least they could have put her in a different outfit.
>>
>>Or you could just read the text next to the photos and see that one 
>>woman suggests to the other that she sits in the wheelchair so that she 
>>can experience for herself how much easier it is with wider halls.
>>
>>Nowhere in the page is it even implied that the woman has a disability.
> 
> 
> Thank you for pointing that out. I had absolutely *no* idea.

Just start studying Japanese. You could try reading manga, for example.

- Kevin