Official: Japan is closed down until May 6th
Added 2020-04-16 11:54:07 +0000 UTCIt’s official. Tonight at 20:30 Abe-san closed down Japan until after Golden Week, May 6th. People will have to give up those family trips this year so we can stay safe. What does this mean? Japan is taking this serious for the first time. The State of Emergency 🚨 moved from 7 prefectures to the whole country. It’s not known if workers will stay home tomorrow - Friday. The government will send ¥100,000 ($950) to everyone but hasn’t said a date yet. I think the country is starting to embrace what we’ve known for the last 6-8 weeks. STAY HOME, this will get better faster for all.
This means that May will continue to be closed down and June is highly questionable. I’d say any trip before June 20th should be kept on hold and after May 6th, we’ll know if this will last another month. If the country is locked down, I worry about May’s postcard and package but I think the mail will rebound at the end of April as commerce must continue when the line flattens.
For those with the virus, Tokyo is sending an ambulance 🚑 and transporting you to various hotels. The Shinagawa Prince Hotel is one of the hotels listed on the news. They’re set up.
Playgrounds around the city are finally getting shut down! Entirely too many people out even today. That suddenly change tonight.
Game systems like Nintendo Switch are hot commodities! I’ll try to get one on the 21st when BIC Camera holds a lottery.
I’ll be giving a through update tomorrow AM JST on the direction of Japan and travel here for May and June.
Comments
Can you get a Inport Switch?
kristycocopop
2020-04-17 01:24:55 +0000 UTCJohn some of my mail from there “TokyoCatch” crane game got rebound or was sent back to sender so just heads up some of the mail are been sent back even the express.
[Hawaiian c]
2020-04-16 22:37:50 +0000 UTCThe stay at home order in WA state is in place until May 4th, and may extend longer depending on availability of testing. The University of Washington has been helping out on the testing front, but we shall see. There's a lot of supply chain issues the US is trying to work out. Here's to hoping Japan will have fewer issues on that front. Stay safe you guys! And good luck on the Nintendo Switch lottery!
Brendan Walker
2020-04-16 21:01:30 +0000 UTCStay safe! I’m still working which is a good thing but I’m am definitely using social distancing anytime I’m around people, hopefully this is over soon so all around the world can open back up and hopefully we have an economic boom all around the world!
Suede hightower
2020-04-16 16:03:14 +0000 UTCStay safe John!
Dave Kwong Xiang Yao
2020-04-16 15:36:47 +0000 UTCIt is about time this happened. A large proportion of the population of Japan is elderly, and at higher risk. As much as a bother as it might be to close things down and have people stay at home, the virus has fewer opportunities to spread this way. At the end of the day, we are all in the same boat throughout most of the world. Stay safe and keep making videos!
Sage hellohi821
2020-04-16 14:46:56 +0000 UTCJoin the crew! Stay safe Kanae & John : ) The UK will in lockdown for another 3 weeks.
Ranjit Singh Chaggar
2020-04-16 13:53:09 +0000 UTCStay safe John
Eric Holleran
2020-04-16 13:28:13 +0000 UTCAll the best and stay safe John and Kanae ! Likewise in Australia at least another month of lock down.
Calin4Food
2020-04-16 13:17:29 +0000 UTCStay safe, John and Kanae! Today we're entering our sixth week of lock down here in Portugal.
Filipe Varela
2020-04-16 12:34:57 +0000 UTC
