JAPAN’S STATE OF EMERGENCY IS NO LOCKDOWN. WHAT’S IN IT?
Apr 11, 2020
2 minutes
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other hard-hit Japanese prefectures to fortify the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. But this is no European or Wuhan-style lockdown. A look at what Japan’s state of emergency entails:
Q. WHY DID ABE DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY?
Abe was facing heavy pressure to declare a state of emergency after the number of new cases in
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