Coronavirus shakes up Tokyo's commercial property market

Coworking offices increase but restaurants pushed out of business

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Office vacancy rates in central Tokyo are rising due to the pandemic.

KENJI ASADA, YOSHIHIRO HARA and ANNA NISHINO, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- The coronavirus pandemic is transforming Tokyo's property lease market.

In Shibuya ward, at the center of Japan's capital, the amount of vacant restaurant properties has doubled over the course of the outbreak.

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