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Tokyo Bars Can Stay Open Until 10 Under Governor’s Exit Roadmap

People walk among bars on a street at night in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.
Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg

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By Gearoid Reidy and Emi Nobuhiro

May 22, 2020 at 8:18 AM UTC

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Bars in Tokyo can keep serving until 10 p.m. and students can soon begin to return to schools as part of a roadmap to reopen the economy in Japan’s capital outlined Friday by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.