Makiko Itoh : Not a nameless cat.

今母から連絡が来たんだけど、横浜の高島屋から感染者が出たのでしばらく全店休業するらしい。食品売り場でなく8階の美容院から出たとか。

Grr, Osaka-fu* And I meant like Tokyo, not like Kanagawa (Bit of a background: Osaka has always felt it is a rival of Tokyo)

Daily positives in Tokyo for the last 7 days as of April 15, 19:00 Japan time: 181 189 197 166 91 161 127 <-- today

The Osaka funding method is more complicated though. The prefecture will fund half, the other half will be up to each city/town to come up with. twitter.com/nikkei/status/…

(Oh yeah, there’s also talk of 100,000 yen to everyone regardless of income, but I’ll believe it when I see it at this point)

Osaka-fun (prefecture) is considering giving 1 million yen to small businesses and 500,000 yen to individual freelancers for their “cooperation” during the COVID-19 emergency (this is similar to Kanagawa) twitter.com/jijicom/status…

Supermarket chains Aeon and Life are giving extra cash to their employees to boost their morale. twitter.com/nhk_shutoken/s…

Well, back to the virus. Media is reporting Tokyo has “more than 125 new positives” today. Will confirm later. If it’s in the 129s it’s a good trend. www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2020…

Sadness is in the shadows of the stars Sadness is in the shadow of the moon Let’s walk while looking up So the tears won’t spill from my eyes I cry as I walk On this lonely night On this night when I’m all alone 6/

Happiness is above the clouds Happiness is above the sky Let’s walk while looking up So the tears won’t spill from my eyes I cry as I walk On this lonely night I remember that autumn day On this night when I’m all alone 5/

Let’s walk while looking up So the tears won’t spill from my eyes I remember that spring day On this night when I’m all alone Let’s walk while looking up Counting the blurry stars in the sky I remember that summer day On this night when I’m all alone 4/

This is a nerdy translator’s rant. There is a much publicized series of videos going around right now, with compilations of ppl including many Japanese celebrities, singing the song Ue o muite arukou 上を向いて歩こう, aka “Sukiyaki” in the west. 1/

あの上を向いて歩こうプロジェクトの英語訳すごくおかしい。全然元の歌詞の哀しさを消しちゃってる。

A help line has been set up by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, for people in the arts and culture who have been adversely affected by COVID-19. (Let us not ask anymore why the Defense Minister has to tweet it out) twitter.com/konotarogomame…

医者は医学、桶屋は桶。

でもこんな綺麗な声の人が普通にいる、不可思議で複雑な国、アメリカ。 twitter.com/MuhammadLila/s…

ニューヨーク州は未だに老人施設などで亡くなった人をCOVID-19の数値に加算してないという（フランスも先々週までそうだった） gothamist.com/news/nyc-relea…

日本の人って、何かというと根拠なしにアメリカを持ち上げる癖があるね。

Basically, whether you can get any aid or not depends on whether you filed your tax returns properly last year.

Here's another PDF that may be useful too: meti.go.jp/covid-19/pdf/k… Also the METI page with all the links arranged in a very unhelpful grid: meti.go.jp/covid-19/index…