At the Finance Bureau Directors' Meeting held on the 3rd, the Ministry of Finance raised the economic judgments of 3 regions such as "Tokai" out of 11 regions nationwide, while leaving the judgments of other regions unchanged.
Regarding the outlook, in light of the growing infection of the new coronavirus, "it is necessary to pay close attention to the impact on the local economy."
On the 3rd, the Ministry of Finance held an online meeting of the directors of the finance bureau once every three months, and summarized the current state of the economy in 11 regions nationwide in the "Economic Situation Report."
According to this, the employment situation is gradually picking up in "Tohoku", including "Tokai" where production activities related to automobiles are recovering against the backdrop of increasing domestic and overseas demand, and "Personal consumption is picking up". The economic judgment has been revised upward in the three regions of "Kinki".
Meanwhile, the other eight regions have left their judgment unchanged.
In addition, companies in the Kanto and Okinawa prefectures have been affected by the state of emergency, saying, "Izakaya is closed because it is prohibited to provide alcoholic beverages and it is not possible to make a profit due to short-time business hours." There were a lot of voices concerned about the deterioration of business performance.
In light of the fact that the infection has spread again and the area covered by the state of emergency has been expanded to six prefectures, the outlook for this economic situation report states that "it is necessary to pay close attention to the impact of infection trends on the local economy." is.