Large commercial complex opens in quake-hit city of Kumamoto

Large commercial complex opens in quake-hit city of Kumamoto

Customers enter the new COCOSA shopping complex in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on April 27, 2017, its opening day. Kumamoto hopes the new site will help stimulate its economy hit by a series of big earthquakes almost a year ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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