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To Protect Restaurants Is Also Protecting "Life" in Japan
To Protect Restaurants Is Also Protecting "Life" in Japan
It's not zero or 100. The point is to make meaningful restriction measures to reduce both
infections and bankruptcy.
I am also quite sceptic about the fact that the new restrictions lump all the different types of
restaurants together and impose the same time limit on them. A uniform closing time of 20:00 and
stopping the serving of alcohol at 19:00 (or banning the serving of alcohol itself) will not only make
it difficult for restaurants to survive, but it will also lead to dense conditions inside restaurants and
inside public transportation.
Other industrialized countries have introduced policies to ease the burden on restaurants with
conditions such as limiting the number of occupied seats to 50%, which in turn allow them to
quickly rotate customers. We would like these restrictions on the opening hours of restaurants to
be reviewed to make them more reasonable according to the situation of infection control, and
according to the type and nature of the business.
As a way to express our thanks to those who work in the medical profession, we will be holding a
special concert on August 22 in collaboration with the Century Orchestra of Japan. We plan to make
it available online, more details will be posted on our website as they become available.