Japan eases virus rule to allow more people at sports, movie venues

Japan eases virus rule to allow more people at sports, movie venues

The Eurospace movie theater in Tokyo begins allowing all seats to be booked on Sept. 19, 2020, as Japan relaxes a rule limiting the size of crowds amid signs of a recent plateauing in nationwide coronavirus cases. Audience members were previously unable to sit next to each other.

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