TOKYO -- Japan enters a critical weekend to prevent an explosive expansion of COVID-19, with stores, restaurants and amusement parks closed and residents of the country's two biggest population centers urged to stay home.
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People walk in empty street in Shibuya on March 28. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)
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