TOKYO -- Tokyo's Kabukicho -- the city's sleepless red-light district full of restaurants, tiny bars, nightclubs and sex parlors -- has been no stranger to notoriety in its 70-year history. But it was COVID-19 that provoked the biggest backlash of all.
Adjacent to Shinjuku train station -- the world's busiest, with over 3.5 million passengers a day -- an early spike in COVID-19 cases saw the district become one of the epicenters of the disease in Japan, sparking withering public criticism.
