By TAKAOKI YAMAMOTO/ Staff Writer
July 14, 2021 at 18:25 JST
Officers from the Metropolitan Police Department close the entrance of the Metropolitan Expressway Harumi Route in Tokyo to test out measures to ease traffic congestion in July 2019. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tolls for the Metropolitan Expressway in the Tokyo area between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. will increase by 1,000 yen ($9.05) from July 19 as part of measures to ease traffic congestion during the upcoming Olympics. [Read More]
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