THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 17, 2020 at 18:35 JST
Akita Governor Norihisa Satake at a meeting in the prefectural government office on April 16 (Chiho Yashiro)
Residents of prefectures with only a few confirmed cases of coronavirus infection were surprised at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s April 16 declaration of a state of emergency being expanded to cover the entire nation, while others welcomed the heightened state of alert. [Read More]
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