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Over the last few decades, the number of senior citizens living alone in Japan has increased rapidly, to the point of dampening economic activity, increasing the load on the social security system, and decreasing the vitality of the local society. In particular, the lack of communication between a large number of elderly people and the local community has become a social problem, and such individuals...