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A pandemic atlas: Masks key to keeping Japan's caseload low

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 15, 2020 9:18 PM

TOKYO (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic came by ship to Japan in February — a foreboding harbinger for a world that had not yet come to grips with the disaster to come.

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