By MASANORI KOBAYASHI/ Staff Writer
August 31, 2020 at 07:00 JST
People walk across the Shijo Ohashi bridge in Kyoto while wearing face masks on Aug. 19. (Masanori Kobayashi)
Japanese people have taken to wearing face masks during the pandemic, but the main reason for doing so has more to do with going along with others than preventing the coronavirus from spreading, a new study says. [Read More]
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