By CHIAKI OGIHARA/ Staff Writer
May 7, 2021 at 17:58 JST
Messages posted on the windows of Tachikawa Sogo Hospital read, “Give us a break. The Olympics are impossible!” The photo was taken in Tokyo’s Tachikawa on May 6. (Tatsuya Shimada)
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