Regarding the state of emergency in the four prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto, the government has decided to extend the deadline of 11th next week to 31st of this month and add Aichi and Fukuoka prefectures to the target area from 12th next week. Did.

Regarding the state of emergency in the four prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto, we have decided to extend the deadline of 11th next week to 31st of this month and add Aichi and Fukuoka prefectures to the target area from 12th next week.

In addition, regarding the "priority measures such as prevention of spread" applied to the three prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area, the deadline has been extended to 31st of this month, and Hokkaido, Gifu and Mie prefectures have been added from 9th, and Miyagi prefecture has been added. , I decided to exclude it from the target with the deadline of 11 days next week.

The target of the declaration is 6 prefectures. The priority measures are applied to 8 prefectures.

As a result,


the target of the ▽ declaration is the 6 prefectures of Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, Aichi, and Fukuoka.


▽ The application of "priority measures" is the 8 roads of Hokkaido, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Gifu, Mie, Ehime, and Okinawa. It will be expanded to the prefecture.



The target areas of the "priority measures" decided by each governor are expected to be 16 cities and towns such as Sapporo City in Hokkaido, Gifu City and Ogaki City in Gifu, and 12 cities and towns such as Yokkaichi City and Kuwana City in Mie. ..

In the basic government policy

Prime Minister Kan is "end the long holiday season, according to the normal time in the future, to ensure the expected measures of the highly effective" as,



▽ continue the suspension of the provision of sake and karaoke at the restaurant, also bring in liquor In addition to restricting,


▽ large-scale facilities such as department stores are requested to shorten business hours by 8 pm, events such as sports and music are requested to be shortened by 9 pm,


▽ telework in response to the increase in infection in the workplace He explained that he is aiming to reduce the number of employees who go to work by 70%.

Policy to continue requesting closure of department stores in Tokyo

After the extension of the state of emergency, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said that it was necessary to thoroughly curb the flow of people for large-scale facilities such as department stores, which the government said would ease the request for shortening business hours instead of requesting closure. We have decided to continue requesting leave.



The city has decided to continue requesting closures to large-scale facilities such as department stores as a measure of the city, saying that it is necessary to thoroughly curb the flow of people even during the extension period of the declaration.



In addition, we are making adjustments to continue requesting Tokyo-specific closures that are not based on the law, even for facilities with a total floor area of ​​1000 square meters or less.

Hyogo Prefecture Saturdays and Sundays will continue to be closed

Following the extension of the state of emergency, Hyogo Prefecture has decided on new measures after the extension.



For large-scale facilities such as department stores, we request shortening of business hours until 7:00 pm on weekdays and closure on Saturdays and Sundays.



Regarding the state of emergency in four prefectures including Hyogo, the government has extended the deadline of 11th next week to 31st of this month, and Hyogo Prefecture will hold a meeting of the countermeasures headquarters and will implement new measures to be applied from the 12th after the extension. I decided.



Among these, except for retail stores that sell daily necessities, we will ease the request for leave for facilities with a total floor area of ​​more than 1000 square meters, and shorten the business hours until 7:00 pm on weekdays. , We will continue to request closures on Saturdays and Sundays.



The government's basic policy is to request shortening of business hours until 8:00 pm regardless of the day of the week for large-scale facilities, but Hyogo Prefecture will continue to curb the flow of people on Saturdays, Sundays, and nights. , It is said that it was a stricter measure.



In addition, we will continue to request closures from restaurants that provide alcohol and karaoke facilities, and requests to shorten the working hours until 8:00 pm to restaurants that do not provide alcohol.



In addition, we request that alcoholic beverages be prohibited from being brought into restaurants.



For events that have been requested to be held without spectators, we request that the maximum number of people be 5,000 and half of the capacity be held, and that the event be held by 9:00 pm.



At the meeting, Governor Ido said, "I would like to come up with measures to firmly send a message to the citizens of the prefecture to cooperate in measures to prevent the collapse of medical care."

Request for normal business of large-scale commercial facilities "I doubt whether it led to the suppression of traffic flow"

In response to the government's extension of the state of emergency until the 31st of this month, the Japan Shopping Center Association, an organization created by operating companies of commercial facilities around the country such as shopping centers, is requesting new business such as normal business of large commercial facilities. I submitted the book to the government.



According to it, "In the target area of ​​the declaration, there are cases where normal business activities are continued in shopping districts, etc., and I wonder if the request for closure of large commercial facilities led to the suppression of the overall flow of people." ..



On top of that, large-scale commercial facilities are thoroughly protected against infections, and the number of infected employees is very small, so we are demanding normal operations on the premise of sufficient infection control.



In addition, if it is unavoidable to continue the request for leave of absence, we are requesting an increase in the cooperation fee provided to commercial facilities, etc., saying that "the scale of the facility and the actual sales performance are not taken into consideration".

Apparel giant "Lost sales channel due to closure"

At a financial results briefing held online, apparel giant World President Nobuaki Suzuki mentioned that large-scale facilities such as department stores that have opened stores were requested to take a leave of absence. Due to the fact that there is no such thing, the desire to deliver products to customers remains unchanged. I would like to continue to work on them. " ..

Department store sales floor expansion one after another

Some department stores that have closed most of their sales floors due to a request for closure due to a state of emergency are expanding their sales floors one after another.



Of these, Takashimaya, a major department store, is expanding its business floor on the 6th after the Golden Week holidays at stores in Tokyo.



Expanded are


▽ specialty stores such as clothing and miscellaneous goods of "Nihonbashi Takashimaya SC" in Chuo Ward, and


▽ shoes and handbags department and eyeglass store of "Takashimaya Times Square" in Shibuya Ward


▽ in Setagaya Ward "Tamakawa Takashimaya S / C" kitchen supplies and bedding, and specialty stores such as clothing


▽ "Tachikawa Takashimaya SC" clothing and miscellaneous goods specialty store in Tachikawa City.



Takashimaya says that in addition to the strong demand from customers, it has resumed operations as it is a daily necessities that is not subject to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's request for closure.



On the other hand, the stores in Kansai continue to operate only for groceries and some restaurants.



In addition, Keio Department Store


reopened the women's goods section such as handkerchiefs and parasols at

the

▽ Shinjuku store, and from the 6th, in addition to the cosmetics section on the 1st floor, the cosmetics section on the 2nd floor also reopened.



▽ The Seiseki-sakuragaoka store in Tama City is scheduled to resume operations from the 8th, assuming that the eyeglasses section and the towel and cooking utensils section are within the range of daily necessities.



▽ Tobu Department Store Ikebukuro Main Store has resumed operations at about 20 sales floors such as eyeglasses, nursing care products, and school uniforms.


As a general rule, reservations are required, and we will continue to resume business for items that are judged to be daily necessities at sales floors that are strongly requested by customers.



▽ Odakyu Department Store has reopened the sales floor for handkerchiefs and socks at the Shinjuku and Machida stores from the 29th of last month.