Professional baseball and soccer The J.League has issued a request to ease the government's measures such as restrictions on spectators' admission and the waiting period after entry of foreign players following the spread of the new coronavirus. I submitted it to the ministry.
On the 10th, Commissioner of Professional Baseball Atsushi Saito and Chairman Mitsuru Murai of the J League visited the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and submitted a joint request to Minister Koichi Hagiuda and Secretary of the Japan Sports Agency Koji Murofushi.
The government has set the maximum number of people for the event in the areas covered by the state of emergency to half the capacity or less than 5,000, and is working to hold the event by 8:00 pm.
For this reason, in the request form,
▽ the standard of spectator admission limit of "up to 5000 people" should be abolished and the standard should be set based on the capacity of the venue
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to make it
possible to hold the game even after 8 pm , Relaxing the time limit at night
▽ We requested that the waiting period of 14 days after the arrival of foreign players be shortened.
Regarding this, the Japanese professional baseball organization explains, "The request is based on the premise that we will promote measures such as measures to alleviate congestion at distributed entrances and exits, wearing masks, and thorough support without speaking out."
On top of that, "Maintaining and continuing activities such as holding professional sports competitions is very important from the perspective of protecting the dreams of young people, protecting the lives of a wide range of stakeholders, and revitalizing the region and economy. It will help people to lead a prosperous life in Corona. "