In the midst of the new corona virus, on October 31st, Halloween day, an unusual spectacle swept across Shibuya, Tokyo. Every year, it is filled with costumed youths and many people are arrested. However, this year, the neighborhood played a central role in encouraging people to refrain from visiting the area, and while there were many people in the crown, there were few people in disguise or in trouble.

Miniska police, nurses, popular anime characters. The moment the traffic light turns blue, it starts working and there is no disguised young man making noise in the center of the intersection. A woman in her twenties who cosplayed from the movie “Harley Quinn” said, “There are few people and it’s safe. If you wear a mask (even if you come), that’s fine” and enjoyed Corona’s Halloween. Like last year, DJ police were stationed and police officers improved traffic, but unlike the usual year when people couldn’t move and were in a three-person state, pedestrians seemed to move on the direction they wanted. ..

Toshiyuki Ono (79), president of the Shibuya Downtown Business District Promotion Association, said in the interview that the situation in Shibuya that day was “80% less than usual. Young people (people who do not dress up) and stupid (people who dress up). Many young people understood self-control and the good points of the Japanese came out. I am very grateful. ”Starting next year, he predicted the dawn of a new Halloween, saying: noise in Shibuya “.[Katsuaki Sato]