THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 18, 2020 at 18:26 JST
A passenger, left, receives a coronavirus test kit before boarding the Ogasawara Maru ferry at the Takeshiba Passenger Ship Terminal on Aug. 11. (Chiaki Ogihara)
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