NARITA, Chiba Prefecture Fewer beans were tossed out by fewer celebrities at this year s Setsubun ceremony at Naritasan Shinshoji temple here on Feb. 3, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued impacting the annual tradition.
Visitor numbers to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the greater Tokyo area on Jan. 1 were up compared with the same day of 2021, when Japan was in the grip of a steep surge in the COVID-19 pandemic, but nowhere close to levels of past years that saw millions of people out and about.
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