THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 1, 2021 at 16:51 JST
Staff at the Marunouchi Toei movie theater in Tokyo's Ginza district prepare the stage on May 31 for a ceremony to be held the next day. (Nobuo Fujiwara)
Movie theaters, public bathhouses and other facilities reopened on June 1 as part of relaxed restrictions implemented along with the extension of the state of emergency for the novel coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]
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