hey guys and gals on Ash Tiffany's its
cat the cat I'm quickly gonna summarize
a couple of things that are happening
here in Japan right now during the state
of emergency that I want to make you
guys aware of we talked about these ones
in our live stream but I'm just going to
summarize a couple of points
now last week the state of emergency got
called it's been now going on for over a
week what happened now is first it was
only called out in seven prefecture and
that was for example Tokyo Osaka the
very populated ones that have seen a lot
of cases however this state of emergency
has now been expanded to nation wide so
please take care wherever in Japan you
are at this point in time if you're
coming here travel to Japan and out of
Japan has become more and more
restricted you might have to check if
you're planning to come to Japan it's
probably not the best of time right now
actually tourists and travelers that
come to Japan haven't dropped by over
90% because also a big danger is that he
could come to Japan in the Yukon go home
and that's really a situation you do not
want to be in pose to and from Japan is
limited right now as well please check
on the Japanese post office they have a
list that's also in English that lists
to which countries you can still send
and receive mail and to which countries
you cannot do this so for example I have
a patreon I had to check this list and
see who's on it at this point in time we
can still send things for example to the
USA in case you want to order something
from Japan but that might change and
also the delivery times are not reliable
at this point in time the post office
said they can give us absolutely no
guarantee for that now many people seem
to be thinking that Japan right now is
in a lockdown we're not in a lockdown or
that the whole country is in quarantine
we're also not in quarantine the thing
is people are asked to stay at home as
much as they can but it is not enforced
by fees or simple things at this point
in time certain stores are still open
but many stores have now been asked to
close so for example in Tokyo pachinko
places karaoke places and game centers
are asked to close but it is not
mandatory
which means some cheeky ones are still
remaining open and the ones that can are
trying to close how
with all businesses as you might know
the smaller businesses are really
struggling while the big businesses are
closing probably also struggling but
they have a name to obtain but some of
the local ones or family-run businesses
they feel forced to still work in order
to keep their livelihood at this point
in time just to let you know we're
filming this video in a safe environment
there are no people around we purposely
selected an area there would be no
people around and that's an another
thing in Japan is not a lockdown we are
allowed to move freely but what we want
to do most of it is right now be super
super careful right now Google is also
showing some analytics on statistics of
how people have been moving in a local
residence the areas but also at stations
were at shopping malls and similar and
we compared the facts between New York
and Tokyo New York their percentage
generally Tokyo is 10% behind which
means we haven't quite reached the goal
yet of 70% to 80% avoidance of other
people I hope we'll get there but what
we've seen a lot is that while the big
areas that are known for being crowded
like Shibuya and Harajuku and such they
are less crowded for sure but the area
is the residency areas in Tokyo where
people live those little malls and areas
I actually still kind of crowded there
quite a lot of people out and about
everyone is wearing masks so but those
rural residency areas are still much
more populated than you might see it in
the media I'm a bit worried about that
hopefully people will be a bit more
careful from now on what we can see
right now is there's a big difference
how the virus is portrayed on TV and how
it is portrayed in social media on TV it
seems to be very much very negative very
sensational last while many youtubers
are trying to talk about it very
positively like guys that stick together
let's help each other out that kind of
thing and generally for news be careful
that you get official news if it's about
news I think it in positive
encouragement is a great idea on social
networking services just don't listen to
rumors because so the weirdest rumors
are going around already try to if you
get a source get finest all sets
reliable like for example and it
hurled does Japanese news in English so
even if you don't speak Japanese you can
tune into that so this is just a little
update on the current situation you hear
in Japan the director and I were being
safe for being very very careful and
we're staying inside I think this is the
first time I've left the house and a
long time probably but we're trying to
do our best so please do your best to no
matter where in the world you are if you
have to go out and you have to work for
the sake of other people then please be
safe and thank you so much for all those
workers who keeping things going from
the doctors to the people selling things
in store to the garbagemen each one of
them is doing such a major job these
people are amazing so if you work in any
of those businesses thank you so much
for heading out and everyone who has to
work right now even though they won't
don't really want to because they're
scared respect to you guys please stay
safe steep please please please stay
being careful about your health as well
and everyone inside and know those of us
are lonely and most of us have many
things we want to do and friends we want
to meet but at this point in time let's
stick together let's let's be careful
let's protect the others around us and
ourselves everyone so please stay
healthy and I catch you soon for more
stuff here on Japanese
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