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.

John W.