TOKYO -- Bar owner Hiroaki Murata's spring pandemic nightmare is back to haunt him just as a coronavirus third wave descends on Japan with the approach of winter.
Murata, who runs an establishment named Ichiyon in Tokyo's Koenji area, remembers how he and his frightened wife felt when they found an ominous message taped to their store sign in late April when Japan was in the midst of government-imposed measures to control the spread of COVID-19.
