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2020.04.29 09:27 GMT+8

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Updated 2020.04.29 09:27 GMT+8
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Japan's Golden Week holiday in pandemic

April 29 marks the beginning of Japan's Golden Week – a day Merei Hatanaka usually spends traveling to her parents' house in Kyoto. But this year is a little different.

Instead of enjoying her usual view from inside the bullet train, she's stuck at her home in Tokyo. As coronavirus cases continue to rise in Japan, Hatanaka has become one of the scores of residents staying put for the holidays, in an effort to curb the spread of the outbreak.

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