THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 4, 2020 at 18:30 JST
A lone pedestrian walks along one of the main thoroughfares in Tokyo's Ginza district, where many department stores and retail outlets were closed for the weekend. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
Parts of Tokyo, for the second weekend in a row, resembled a ghost town as residents heeded a call to refrain from going outdoors due to the coronavirus scare and a disturbing rise in new infections. [Read More]
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