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Japan's decision to distribute reusable cloth face masks to about 50 million households is backfiring, as users complain the masks are too small and are proving to be a waste of taxpayers' money.

Anger as Japanese Prime Minister offers two cloth masks per family while refusing to declare coronavirus emergency By Emiko Jozuka and Junko Ogura , CNN 4 minute read ...

TOKYO — Tens of millions of unpopular cloth masks produced as an anti-coronavirus measure under former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe remain unused and are being kept in a private storage ...

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