(2)Revolving door accident prompts concerns about safety

OSAKA, Japan - A guard (R) watches over customers entering a revolving door at Hankyu Department store in Umeda in Osaka on March 27, a day after a 6-year-old boy died after getting his head stuck in a similar door at the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo.

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