His father was a debt-collector who rounded up licence fees for the NHK television network, dragging his son along with him on Sundays as he called on households door-to-door.

天吾的父亲是NHK公司负责上门收费的收款员，周日的时候会拉着儿子跟他一起到各家各户去收电视有线费。

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Alas this happy ploy is more or less confined to countries such as Sweden, where ministers resign for forgetting to pay television-licence fees, and members of parliament perch in tiny, state-owned bedsits while working in the capital: 72% of Danes and 66% of Swedes duly told a 2010 Eurobarometer poll they trusted national parliaments.

ECONOMIST: British distrust for politicians is peculiarly dangerous