THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 23, 2021 at 09:30 JST
A soccer ball and flowers are offered at the site of a fatal traffic accident in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Feb. 22. The construction fencing was an opaque white when Kairi Okubo, 8, who loved playing soccer, was killed here in February 2020. (Emi Iwata)
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