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Shinichiro Takeda, a professor of administrative law at Seikei University Law School in Tokyo. He is critical of the central government's proposed legal revisions on subsidy distribution to chip away, from within, local government opposition to hosting U.S. military bases on Okinawa. (Asahi Shimbun)
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The central government should not be allowed to entice communities to follow its wishes by distributing subsidies in whatever way it wants.
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wanderlust
They do the same for Nuclear Power Plants, making the towns dependent on the subsidies, and accelerating the closure of whatever local industries where there beforehand, as the utilities now become the areas biggest employer.