Sixty-year-old Yashiro Haga serves ramen at his noodle shop 'Shirohachi', amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sixty-year-old Yashiro Haga is folding his Tokyo noodle ramen shop after 15 years in December, unable to overcome the prospect of a lasting customer slump due to the coronavirus crisis.
"The flow of people has changed due to the coronavirus," Haga said, standing behind the counter of his ground-floor shop, Shirohachi. "Customers aren't coming in and queuing up outside shops any longer."
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