By YUSUKE NAGANO/ Staff Writer
January 9, 2022 at 14:50 JST
Visitors inundate the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo’s Asakusa district on Jan. 8. (Yosuke Fukudome)
Pedestrian traffic near some of the nation’s busiest landmarks expanded markedly on Jan. 8, the start of a three-day weekend, compared with this time last year, despite surging cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus over the past week. [Read More]
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