By RYUICHI YAMASHITA/ Staff Writer
February 5, 2021 at 16:10 JST
A man blows smoke near the Lower House chamber inside the Diet building in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Jan. 28. (Kotaro Ebara)
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