THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 12, 2020 at 16:35 JST
A customer at the Mikado video game center near JR Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo enjoys a game just minutes after the business opened on June 12 for the first time in two months. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
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