THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 15, 2020 at 16:32 JST
Tourists wearing face masks walk along the Nakamise shopping mall in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Dec. 14. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Ailing approval ratings, not the sickness spreading among the population, prompted Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s abrupt decision to suspend his long-protected Go To Travel campaign over the year-end holiday period, sources said. [Read More]
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