TOKYO -- As Japan's traditional bathhouses, or sento, face a wave of closures across Tokyo, the metropolitan government is launching initiatives to help find new ownership and to assist with renovating facilities.
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Tokyo government steps in to keep 'sento' bathhouses alive
Initiative to ease ownership transfer planned for family-run businesses
Udagawa-yu in Tokyo's Setagawa ward: The Japanese capital's government is supporting transfer of ownership for sento public bathhouses. (Photo by Kosuke Shinohara)
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