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#CoronavirusUpdate 1/2🇯🇵Japan's four major governors met for 3 hours with economic minister to request the state to invoke the #StateofEmergency declaration amid massive surge of COVID19 cases in 18 prefectures. State responded it will 'consider'. twitter.com/i/events/13452…

Meanwhile, the state asked the governors to 'act on immediately' to (1) limit the restaurant hours to until 20:00 and restrict outing after that hour, (2) enforce teleworking in workplaces, (3) enact countermeasures in schools/workplaces, (4) restrict further on events.

While making these requests to the prefectures, the GoJ focuses on amending the current special law on COVID19 to strengthen enforcement powers of the state and prefectures to allow penalizing people for disobedience. The National Diet will be meeting on January 18.

And this is how our national public broadcaster has broken the news.

Tokyo, 3 prefectures request state of emergency | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…