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Labels the country’s schools as stifling “salaryman training facilities.”
Rumor has it that the world-famous Bill Gates has started building a vacation home in Japan’s premier mountain resort town Karuizawa, Nagano!
After it was substantiated in an article in Shinken Shinbun, a local construction periodical, the Bill Gates Mansion became the talk of the town. The land for it includes an area of 19,979 square meters. It will be one-storied and go down two stories into a basement. There will be a heliport and a private underground road accessing the grounds where a 2000 square metered garden is planned.
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