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Poor Economic Performance Led Citizens to Question Tokyo's Ability to Restart the Economy, While 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: having/a strohg belief or conviction able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering expressing or refulting from sympathy or compassion showing no care pr 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 believed the government was indifferent to their hardships, meaning they perceived the government as uncaring and unconcerned about their struggles.