THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 15, 2024 at 08:00 JST
A staff member places a coffin for a deceased South Korean into an automobile in preparation for transport on Dec. 2, 2023, in Tachikawa in western Tokyo. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
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