By TOKO TANAKA/ Staff Writer
July 22, 2021 at 07:00 JST
A non-Japanese resident, accompanied by an interpreter wearing a pink bib, receives a novel coronavirus vaccine in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 11. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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