THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 31, 2020 at 15:25 JST
Nobuyuki Koga, right, chairman of the Board of Councillors of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), takes part in a video conference with Yasutoshi Nishimura, the state minister for economic revitalization, on Oct. 30. (Pool)
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