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Japan, this is the holiday season.
With the Olympics just two months away, the Japanese government has issued an emergency situation in Tokyo and Osaka to prevent the spread of coronavirus during the holiday season, with close to 6,000 confirmed cases a day.
Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae came from Tokyo for details.
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Enoshima in Kanagawa Prefecture, a famous tourist destination in the Japanese metropolitan area.
The bridge to and from the island is full of tourists and vehicles.
The Japanese government appealed for refraining from going out unnecessary until the day after tomorrow (the 5th), but last weekend the floating population of large cities such as Tokyo and Osaka more than doubled from last year's first emergency.
Yesterday, 5,900 new coronavirus cases across Japan were confirmed.
In Tokyo, more than 700 people were confirmed today, the highest number since last January on Monday.
It was the Japanese government's plan to lift the emergency next week, but if it remains, it is unclear.
[Tokyo residents: I am not sure how long it will be canceled.
I don't think much has changed.] If the
emergency is prolonged, it is difficult to raise the atmosphere of the Olympics.
While the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee expressed negative views on whether to give the national athletes a vaccine first, the International Olympic Committee also predicted that only 60% of the 10,000 foreign national athletes would be vaccinated before participating in the Olympics.
The Mainichi Shimbun criticized the reason that no one in the Suga regime mentions canceling the Olympics despite the situation, because of the political purpose of somehow pushing ahead and leading to the victory of the fall general election.
(Video coverage: Moon Hyun-jin, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)