THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 30, 2020 at 19:06 JST
Customers practice social distancing while waiting for the opening of the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 30. (Shiro Nishihata)
Life began taking on some semblance of normal again in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures on May 30, the first weekend after the lifting of the state of emergency for the novel coronavirus pandemic in those areas as well as Hokkaido. [Read More]
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