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◇ Announcer Jeon Jin-young (Jin Jin-young): Japan extended the emergency following Corona 19’s response from 4 to 31. However, with the judgment that the number of confirmed new patients is declining, they began looking for coping strategies. serious departure, such as advance publication of the emergency declaration. Let’s listen to how the atmosphere of Japan is prolonged in an emergency, and connect with them in Japan. Tokyo Japan YTN Global Center Park Jin-hwan Reporter The phone is connected. Hello reporter
◆ Jin-Hwan Park Reporter, YTN Global Center in Tokyo, Japan (Jin-Hwan Park): Hello. This is Park Jin-hwan from Tokyo.
Yo Jinyoung Jeon: On the 4th, the Japanese government announced an emergency extension, and the 7th was the first day of the extension. How was the mood then?
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: Speaking of day 7, Japan was the first day of the golden holidays and the new week began. I couldn’t see that everyday life changed so much. Once the emergency was declared, there were demands to refrain from unnecessary departures and tourism, and there were no significant changes as the companies were also taking preventive activities regarding various crowns. However, in the case of Japan, almost every day data is sent to analyze how many people are in the tourist place or in the city center using GPS, tracking the location of the mobile phone. There is still an atmosphere of relief as the number of confirmed patients decreases. And since the statement was made on the 31st, there was a sense of relief, and the atmosphere seemed to be returning to its original state.
◇ Jin-Jeon Jeon: As the number of confirmed people is gradually decreasing, citizens are also showing that they are gradually trying to return to their daily lives. However, in reality, the emergency was announced in early April and has been going on for over a month. While the journalist lives in Tokyo, what has changed most notably before and after the emergency?
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: The biggest change was that people’s movements were greatly reduced. When I come and go for the company, it seems almost dark at 8 o’clock. It seems to be late at night. At 7 o’clock, at 8 o’clock, most entertainment venues, restaurants, and places like this are closed, so the mood to refrain from leaving seems to have increased significantly after the emergency. So, it seems that the movement of people in the city has been reduced because they do not go out unnecessarily. And the biggest change is that the company’s work style has changed a lot. Before the emergency declaration, there were only many words that said: “Let’s work from home to work to prevent infection. I did a lot
◇ Jin-Jeon Jeon: In Korea, I recently saw a report that said something like that. As emergencies continue, there are restaurants and offices that reduce business closings, and there are many cases of theft. Did you see the news?
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: Actually, it’s not exactly the statistics. How many crimes have increased. Most entertainment establishments are open, and in the case of bars, they can only be open until 8 o’clock, and most are closed at 8 or 9 o’clock. As human trafficking decreases dramatically, the number of crimes targeting these places increases because the blinds are closed, so the police are very vigilant and patrol a lot. The biggest problem is that not only stores, but also schools are closed, but middle and high school students are at home, so there are actually criminal thieves. There are times when I walk into the house and meet children, so I often feel very threatened. In this sense, it is true that the police and the community are vigilant.
That’s correct.There was a point where the initial response was inadequate when Corona 19 first appeared in the Japanese government, but I think there will be public fatigue about it as the emergency continues for more than a month. How is the mood?
When the Abe government declared an emergency, I told them I would be very confident in a month and that I would get ready in a month, but I apologized at the Prime Minister’s press conference during the second extension. I couldn’t rectify it in a month. Many complaints are coming up to apologize for apologizing to people. And the biggest problem is that the Abe regime is very poor in terms of crown policy. Most surveys show that over 60% of people are now dissatisfied with the Abe regime’s crown policy. I have a lot of complaints about not being perfect. And the main reason is that I told you that there are many prosecutors in Japan that cannot be evaluated before. It has not been resolved since two months have passed. Even though the Abe regimen announced that it would perform about 20,000 PCR tests per day, it actually showed symptoms because there were only 7,000 and 8,000 tests per day, and the probability of infection was very high. Despite this, there are cases in which we wait a week. In this sense, the anxiety of the citizens is very great.
Yo Jinyoung Jeon: I was going to ask a related question, even if it wasn’t. So recently, the corona19 diagnostic standard itself was so high that there was much criticism, so I recently heard that advice on corona19 suspicions and medical standards in Japan have relaxed.
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: Basically, there is no difference with Korea. It is not uncommon for Korea and Japan to undergo a PCR test at the discretion of the physician. However, last week, experts and the government removed one of the PCR testing standards, meaning that if the heat of 37 degrees or more lasted 4 days, there was a criteria that it would be subject to PCR testing. It was scrapped last week. The biggest problem was holding a press conference saying that the minister said that they had never presented 37.5 degrees or 4 days. It was all a misunderstanding of citizens and the medical field. At a press conference, we raised a lot of criticism saying that we did not present more than 37.5 degrees. The fact that 37.5 degrees is a criterion that is actually forced into practice due to the threat of a medical collapse if the number of confirmed patients, including mild cases, continues as the confirmed person leaves for Japan first time. As it turned out, public opinion asking why the 37.5 degree standard was not removed was inevitably pushed, so removing the 37.5 degree point was now lowering the barrier of the PCR test. In fact, there are not many real facilities or staff that can do PCR testing in Korea, so even if you don’t want to do PCR testing, it looks like the situation will not continue for a while.
◇ Jin-Jeon Jeon: Although inspection standards have been lowered, there is no physical difference that people can experience because there is no physical environment to test them, right?
◆ Park Jin-hwan: Yes. As an alternative, it is less accurate than antibody irradiation or PCR. I am talking about presenting this, but in fact, the most important thing is the PCR test, in the medical field and in various media. There’s a lot of talk about the need to create an environment for rapid PCR testing and budget more.
Me Jinyoung Jeon: Yes, I understand. Then the story of the emergency extension came back, and the government decided to extend the emergency, but the movement was different for each local government, apart from the government. Are there local governments that have already withdrawn or are going to withdraw from school or will they close?
◆ Park Jin-hwan: Yes. Declaring an emergency is a law in which the authority of local governments is going to go a long way, but it is true that the government has now taken the initiative and controlled several things. However, as I said before, the heads of local governments have a very high sense of crisis because the Japanese government is not going to pass certain standards or certain policies to those local governments. There are so many movements that want to set their own standards, so it looks like there will be many gaps, up to when and for how long to maintain the emergency declaration by region. And on our own, there are many local governments who say that if these criteria are met, they will cancel the emergency declaration, but they will not extend it. There seems to be a lot of difference between government temperature and local government.
◇ Jin-Jeon Jeon: Literally, in such a national disaster, the government should focus and act as a control tower, but it seems that it is not. If so, how have the Japanese media recently released an analyzer for this type of response from the Japanese government, or for such treatment?
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: Not just most of the media and people. The media also has the highest criticism. As you said earlier, despite the fact that the control tower does not exist, the government tried to place itself at the center of the countermeasures despite the fact that the authority of many local governments passed. It is a situation in which dissatisfaction and criticism focus on policies without the speed of government.
Yo Jinyoung Jeon: Correct. And I heard that the second emergency correction budget is being prepared in Japan as the emergency is now extended. What does this contain?
◆ Jin-Hwan Park: The second additional revision budget is. So far, nothing has come from the government level. Some of the ruling party members have proposed to the government. We are preparing for the second round of the additional revision budget, which is approximately 2 trillion yen in Japanese yen. The first case was also very slow. The first round was very slow and the content was not satisfactory, so there was a lot of criticism. In the second case, the emergency dragged on and the proposal to provide emergency support to pay 100,000 yen to everyone who made the first round was declared an emergency. There are also some voices who say they have to pay once again because they have been paid 100,000 yen. And in the first episode, there were a lot of puzzles in the content itself. Financing was the key. However, it is not much more than that amount, but it is a very baffled campaign like an IR A campaign. It was a budget to pay for coupons that can be used in tourist places and places like this. In fact, it is not helpful to distribute the coupon in a situation where you cannot sightsee or do anything. In a way, the budget was not included in the first place, and many of the non-emergency budgets that people could not understand were included in the first round, so the second was public opinion, and the ruling party I was aware of people’s criticism. There is a movement to apply for grants to struggling college students due to lack of part-time jobs or to put budgets in the public position a little more than the former.
Yo Jinyoung Jeon: Correct. I see I heard you today. Thank you
◆ Park Jin-hwan: Yes, thank you.
Yo Jinyoung Jeon: Until now, Jinhwan Park has spoken to the reporter from the YTN Global Center in Tokyo, Japan.
