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February 3, 2021 at 17:38 JST
Mizuho Fukushima, head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan, at a joint meeting of the Upper House’s Cabinet Committee and Committee on Health, Welfare and Labor on Feb. 3 (Kotaro Ebara)
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