Japanese group to open aquarium in Taiwan amid COVID-19

A Japanese consortium said Thursday it will open an aquarium in Taiwan, its first outside Japan, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across much of the world.Tadamitsu Fujii, president of Taiwan Yokohama Hakkejima Inc., told reporters at a pre-opening tour of the Xpark Aquarium that the facility will be opened on Aug. 7."We hope our visitors will have fun and want to come back again and again," Fujii said.Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, he estimated that the facility, which comprises an aquarium, cafe and gift shops, will attract 1.6 million visitors for the first year, generatin…READ FULL ARTICLE