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A $12K Ambulance, a Detainee's Death, and Sony's Disc Exit: Overseas Systems vs. Japan
Three overseas-systems stories drew Japanese attention at once: a roughly $12,873 (about 1.9 million yen) ambulance bill in San Francisco, the death in custody of a Turkish man at a Tokyo police station, and Mexican lawmakers' antitrust push over Sony ending PlayStation disc production. Rather than pure outrage, comments turned each into a home-policy debate — whether Japan should start charging for ambulances, how fast to deport detainees, and whether the disc complaint is misguided since download codes still sell.