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collaborated with Associate Professor Yutaro Takaya (The University of Tokyo, Waseda University, JAMSTEC), Adjunct Assistant Professor Ken Nakayama (Kochi University), and Professor Yasuhiro Kato (The ...

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By prefecture ... in the southwest had 57.24 cases. Kochi in the west had 56.36 cases. Aichi in central Japan had 42.94 cases, while Osaka and Tokyo had 24.93 and 21.93 respectively.