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Kansai Mirai Bank's credit analysis division installed cardboard dividers in its office as an anti-coronavirus measure. (Photo by Shogo Nakatani)

SHOGO NAKATANI and HIROFUMI KANAOKA, Nikkei staff writers

OSAKA -- When 15 employees in the credit risk analysis division at Kansai Mirai Bank returned to their downtown Osaka office for the first time in three months on July 10, they sat at desks separated by cardboard partitions.

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