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People need their rituals. It might be better to hope that people will be smart enough to do their oshogatsu rituals safely rather than forgo them.
Hopefully. The shrines will certainly not forgo their most lucrative season.
Meanwhile, JR East, Tokyo Metro, Keisei Electric Railway and Keikyu Corp. announced that they will not run all-night trains on New Year's Eve through New Year's Day, as a measure to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. For JR East, the cancellation of the train services will be the first since 1987.
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