By HIDEO SATO/ Staff Writer
September 9, 2020 at 08:00 JST
Kyoto-style traditional folding fans created by the Kyoto Sensu Uchiwa Shoko Kyodo Kumiai (Kyoto folding and round fan commercial and industrial cooperative association) to contain the novel coronavirus are shown in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward. (Hideo Sato)
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