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Preventing Japanese from gathering to enjoy cherry blossom season because of the coronavirus would be like "taking hugs away from Italians," Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Thursday.

Koike however urged people to refrain from traditional hanami parties where friends and family gather under cherry blossom trees for copious quantities of food and drink. (AFP/ Philip Fong)