I said to myself as I got ready for bed. Just an ordinary, sleepy southern town."

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" Of the 700 young people at Majima's school in Otsu, a new "bed town" for people working in Kyoto and Osaka, 50 are classified as "problem students.

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Several years ago, Google invited cities across America to apply to be the first Google Fiber town, the test bed for a high-speed broadband service.

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Many of them died in their homes because their parents couldn't afford the town's 18-bed clinic, which was often out of drugs anyway.

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