By TAKAYUKI KAKUNO/ Staff Writer
January 2, 2022 at 18:30 JST
Barely more than a handful of visitors showed up at Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Taito Ward around noon on Jan. 1, 2021. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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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