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This was the last day of my trip, and I talk briefly about my surprise at how depressed the city, at least the part I was in, appeared to be.
What do you think? Is this just an example of how it is all over Japan since the virus basically shut down normal life?
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Everything you are saying in this video is right, but, but but. It's missing some key details. How the government dealt with covid. The measure that alcohol serving restaurants had to close at 8pm. Even if they switched to serving soda after that time.
A lot of restaurants in Japan serve alcohol
A lot of Japanese restaurants were affected by government Covid policy.
"Temporary covid measures" means the restaurants don't want to go through the effort of making a new sign with their new hours, because they don't know how long the lockdown will last. And with the reduced business, I'm sure some businesses went back to their old hours, found that there wasn't many people out at night (because the people got used to everywhere closing at 8pm too) and went back to the close at 8pm schedule.
"Under the state of emergency to be newly effective in Tokyo and extended in Okinawa, the government will prohibit restaurants from serving alcohol and maintain its request for them to close by 8 p.m.
In prefectures where a quasi-state of emergency will be extended to Aug. 22, such as Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa and Osaka, restaurants are asked not to serve alcohol in principle. But they can until 7 p.m. depending on the respective governors' decisions."
Also, at the end when you mentioned Omiyage, it would have been good to mention the characters that make up the word “omiyage”. 土, which is read tsuchi or dō means “local” and 産, pronounced san, means “produce”. A gacha toy depicting a local landmark might be a Souvenir, and not Omiyage.
Thanks Paul, though this episode is kinda sad I really appreciate you sharing this Nagano series… 👍🏽 clicked
It's sad that Japan still keeps tourists outside and millions of people working in the tourism industry are still being screwed :/