THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 5, 2023 at 19:00 JST
Masakazu Tokura, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), eats seafood from the Tohoku region for lunch in Tokyo on Sept. 4. (Hideki Aota)
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