By SHOKO MIFUNE/ Staff Writer
December 18, 2023 at 18:42 JST
A man in a beige coat of Thai nationality, seen in far right, was waiting for customers in the Okubo Park area in the Kabukicho district in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 7. He went to a hotel with a man in a suit and was later arrested for violating the Tokyo metropolitan government’s nuisance prevention ordinance. (Shoko Mifune)
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