-Due to the rapid spread of Corona 19, controversy is arising as local governments in the metropolitan area of Japan, where an emergency has been declared, have held a coming-of-age ceremony with many people.
According to NHK on the 11th, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, which has the largest number of new adult populations in Japan, with 37,000 people becoming adults this year, held a coming-of-age ceremony at the Yokohama Arena on the same day as Adults’ Day.
Eight coming-of-age ceremonies were held four times at two event venues in Yokohama, and about 15,000, or 40% of the 37,000 adults, attended.
The city of Yokohama points out that it is not appropriate to conduct a coming-of-age ceremony when attendees are declared in an emergency while measuring their body temperature and providing hand sanitizers, while attendees sit at intervals.
However, many local governments canceled the event or conducted it online due to concerns about the spread of infection.
Sumida-ku, Tokyo initially tried to hold a coming-of-age ceremony with about 2,000 people attending, but in consideration of an emergency declaration, it canceled the existing event, held a coming-of-age ceremony with only a small number of newly grown adults and the mayor of the ward, and released the event online.
Corona 19 is rapidly increasing, with 1219 new infections confirmed that day in Tokyo, Japan.
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