By MASATAKA YAMAURA/ Staff Writer
January 14, 2020 at 17:30 JST
Students from Taiwan and the Philippines put on kimono at a municipal center in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward on Jan. 13. (Masataka Yamaura)
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