By TARO SAITO/ Staff Writer
December 2, 2021 at 18:00 JST
An array of cardboard boxes storing unused cloth face masks in a warehouse close to Tokyo on Dec 1 (Kotaro Ebara)
Tens of millions of cloth face masks procured by the Abe administration for every household nationwide early in the COVID-19 crisis lie unused in a vast warehouse close to Tokyo, testament to an ill-conceived project that proved to be a giant waste of taxpayers’ money. [Read More]
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