By YOSHIE WATANABE/ Staff Writer
July 12, 2023 at 17:29 JST
Blue soap sticks are seen inside a transparent box, foreground, at a factory at the Yokosuka Branch Prison in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Yoshie Watanabe)
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