THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 26, 2020 at 19:09 JST
Staff checks a visitor’s body temperature at the Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore in Omiya Ward of Saitama City in Saitama Prefecture, on May 26. (Yoko Hasegawa)
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