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Nagoya City Suggests the Disabled Use Drones to Scale a Castle
When the city of Nagoya announced the renovated Nagoya Castle would lack an elevator for disabled access, the response was…left than uplifting.
July 10, 2019
When the city of Nagoya announced the renovated Nagoya Castle would lack an elevator for disabled access, the response was…left than uplifting.
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