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Poor Economic Performance Led Citizens to Question Tokyo's Ability to Restart the Economy, While Its Failure to Reverse Growing Income

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Poor economic performance led citizens to question Tokyo's ability to restart the economy, while its failure to reverse growing income inequality and-poverty led the public to believe it was indifferent to their hardships. Source: Newsweek In this sentence .indifferent means: expressing or resulting from sympathy or compassion able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering having a strong belief or conviction showing no care or concern in attitude or action

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"Indifferent" in this context means **showing no care or concern in attitude or action**. The sentence states that the public perceived the government as indifferent to their hardships, meaning they believed the government didn't care about their struggles.