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COVID-19 is causing the Japanese to swap city life for the countryside

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In the land of the rising sun, could the sun be setting on its cities? Image: REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

Tetsushi Kajimoto
Correspondent, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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People cross a street in front of Shinjuku station, a normally crowded street during the weekend, after the government expanded a state of emergency to include the entire country last week following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan, April 19, 2020. Picture taken with a drone.   REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RC2K7G9ZW1QT
In September, 30,644 people moved out of the capital Tokyo. Image: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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