TOKYO -- Japan will decide during the upcoming Golden Week holidays whether to extend the country's state of emergency beyond May 6, looking at such numbers as the pace of infection increases that reflect the effectiveness of the measures taken so far.
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A pedestrian in the empty streets of Tokyo's Ginza district April 18: Japan is assessing whether the state of emergency has helped combat the coronavirus. © Kyodo
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