By YOSHITAKA UNEZAWA/ Staff Writer
August 18, 2021 at 16:56 JST
Some businesses in the Shinjuku entertainment district remain open after 8 p.m. despite a Tokyo metropolitan government request to close by that time. (Yoshitaka Unezawa)
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