Tokyo: Preventing Japanese from gathering to enjoy cherry blossom season because of Covid-19 would be like “taking hugs away from Italians”, the governor of Tokyo said.
Yuriko Koike, however, urged people to refrain from traditional “hanami” parties where friends and family gather under cherry blossom trees for copious quantities of food and drink.
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