By TAKAYUKI KAKUNO/ Staff Writer
January 2, 2022 at 18:30 JST
Crowds at Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Taito Ward around noon on Jan. 1 (Takayuki Kakuno)
Visitor numbers to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the greater Tokyo area on Jan. 1 were up compared with the same day of 2021, when Japan was in the grip of a steep surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, but nowhere close to levels of past years that saw millions of people out and about. [Read More]
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