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Other young people in those days. He’s getting in trouble, is he rarely like that?Well, that turns out to be the tone of some politicians, adding Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, who has so far hinted at the third state of emergency.
“We need to attract other young people in particular,” he said. “If other young people wanted to stay home, have interaction in the studies and other internal activities of their homes, things would get better. “
What would the young men in Tokyo do if they were home to examine diligently?Rojonomi, which translates into English as “drinking on the street”.
And when you’re looking to sell your message to young people, where are you going?Youtube Then, to make sure everyone understands the message loud and clear, Koike gave the impression on a clip on the Hajimemashite Matsuo Desu (Nice To Meet You, I’m Matsuo) channel. Better yet, it gave the impression animatedly along the iconic characters of the chain: an octopus, a bird and a mouse.
In a voiceover, he suggested to the inhabitants of Tokyo, especially the young people, that they stay on the Golden Week holiday and gave a stern warning about the Rojonomi.
“Don’t drink on the street or meet in parks to drink with others,” he said, adding that the new variants of COVID-19 are everywhere and most likely among other young people we’ve noticed before in Japan.
“These variants don’t fit a schedule or schedule,” he says. “There’s no way to know when and where they might appear. “
We spent the Golden Week and the clip has registered more than 1. 3 million views, 76,000 likes and 1,300 dislikes on YouTube. Hajimemashite Matsuo Desu’s Twitter account posted the video on May 1, and it has since gained more than 369,600 views, 9,900 retweets, and 27,700 likes.
“Wow, that’s her, ” tweeted ichini_1_2. I sense that the coronavirus is scary, I’ll be careful not to get infected. “
However, Koike’s effort on social media has not reduced the number of new instances in Tokyo. Perhaps the governor deserves to have directed his “Just Say No” effort to others who might be old enough not to forget the original “Just Say No” crusade that was deployed to combat drug use in the United States in the 1980s. After all, many of those involved in rozhunomi are probably company staff and staff between the age of 30 and 40. “
“It’s not just about young people,” says an article on Tokyo Sports Web. “At Shin-Okubo Station, for example, an organization of middle-aged people to the elderly were on the street drinking. A drunk guy goes to a supermarket” and says, “This is my fridge, ” before I buy sake. “
On the Newspicks website, commentator Shota Aizawa said: “I am disgusted by this finger pointing at young people. Personally, I’m much more disappointed by middle-aged men drinking alcohol on the train.
The sentiment was also echoed through Twitter user @AokiTonko: “The main media still do not weigh the pros and cons of drinking on the street. A year ago, they boarded pachinko lounges and host bars. a new villain to catch while tracking the fact that this country’s medical formula rarely works well.
As the weather warms, other people are likely to keep marking the rest time with a drink in the park or hitting their favorite bars (which are still closed). The reasoning is that COVID-19 is less likely to propagate if you’re out.
Kobe Shimbun has published a report on other people in their twenties, thirty-forties who are on display in parks with folding chairs and tables, able to stay for a few hours. Riken scientists warn that if you don’t wear a mask when you drink and communicate with someone, the wind can bring infectious germs a metre away, potentially infecting others.
On some other front, rojonomi has created an absolutely different problem: unwanted waste. In an article published on Asahi Shimbun’s Aera Dot news site, The citizens of Yokohama unleashed their anger at having to hide the damage caused by drinkers.
Will the other young people be guilty of this, too?If they do, we can see Governor Koike proposing a “debrisless” dance for TikTok over the summer.
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