You can ride a roller coaster in Japan. But don’t scream.

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Amusement and theme parks in the US and around the globe are starting to reopen. They’re not going to feel the same, though. In Japan, the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park team released a video asking people not to scream out loud, because that’s how they could spread the coronavirus to fellow adrenaline-seekers. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.

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