THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 1, 2020 at 17:01 JST
Shops are closed on an empty street in downtown Naha, the capital of popular tourist destination Okinawa Prefecture. (Tsukasa Kimura)
More than 100 businesses in Japan have gone bankrupt during the novel coronavirus pandemic as plummeting tourist numbers and the “stay home” campaign have hammered revenues, a research institute said. [Read More]
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