By TAICHI KOBAYASHI/ Staff Writer
January 12, 2022 at 15:50 JST
Pedestrians in Tokyo’s Ginza district on Jan. 9. 2021, when the capital was under a state of emergency for COVID-19 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The Tokyo metropolitan government remains reluctant to tighten restrictions on bars and restaurants to combat the surge in infections of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. [Read More]
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