In the country once known for its passive resignation, where, as bad as things got, only four percent expressed their opinion to a public official, today 90 percent tell us that if there's a problem in their community, it's up to them to fix it.
たった4%の国民しか行政に物言わぬほど 落ちぶれてしまった 受動的で屈服した国だったのが 今では 90%の国民が 自分らの地域社会で問題があれば 自分らで解決すべきだと言っている