International Monetary Fund (IMF) published an anual report on Japanese economy and expressed their warning that spreading coronavirus is a risk for Japanese economy. Also, increasing the amount of social welfare expenditure can make government balance worse. IMF suggested that the consumption tax should be increased from 10% to 15%.

Paul Cashin said, “the amount of trade and investment between China and Japan will decrease. The sightseeing and retail industry will get severe damage because the number of tourists is reduced.

In the report, IMF suggests that Japanese government should increase consumption tax moderately in order to reduce their debt sustainability. If the consumption tax increased to 15%, the amount of budget deficit are estimated to be reduced to 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Also, cutting their social welfare expenditure, the deficit are supposed to decreased to at maximum 6%.

Detective conan cafes will open in 12 areas, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka etc from this spring. You can eat aptx curry rice, children’s lunch set and black risotto. There are some restaurants that are required to make reservation. If you want to know more, please visit the official website. https://conan-cafe.jp/

The 71st Sapporo Snow festival was held in February 12th. The number of the attendances decreased from 2.73m people to 2.02m people, which is the lowest for the past ten years. The main reason is that the tourists canceled because of spreading coronavirus in Sapporo.

During lunar new year season, a number of individual tourists from China was cancelled and group tourists of kindergarten and elementary school canceled it because of spreading the virus. The number of tourists from Taiwan and Thailand are stable compared with recent years. However, the number of people from Korea decreased because of relationship deterioration between Japan and Korea.

The boom of Kimetsu no yaiba, “Demon Slayer” cannot stop in Japan. After the animation series was ended, the popularity have increased. The books are sold out in a lot of bookstore and the goods also do rapidly. There are a lot of people wearing the fashion like the characters. Although it is boys’ comic series books, women lead the big sales. Why do the comic sales get boost?

Kimetsu no yaiba, “Demon Slayer” written by Gotoge Koyoharu. The main character is a kind man, Kamado Tanjiro, whose family was killed by demon and younger sister became a demon. Nezuko. They goes to adventure for the purpose of her becoming a human again.

The number of comic sales is fifteen million in two months. The campaign of the clear file folder gift of the anime was ended in one day at convenient stores at February 7th. The tickets of the art galary was more than the store expected.

Why did the big boom happen? The book retailers explained the reasons. There are comments that the comic books are sold out anywhere online. It increases the people’s attention. Also, online movie subscription services, Amazon Prime video and Netflix spread in Japan. That’s why the boom spreaded even after the anime series was ended.

The anime influences the girl’s fashion.

There are some girls with the green or orange edge of their hair in Harajuku and Shibuya. Takai Sakura, a high school student said, “It is the color of Kocho Shinobu. I bought the hair color agent because the beauty salon does not have any options. Although the hair color was popular before the anime series starts, it boost the trend. Also, you can see the nail fashion of Demon Slayer. A younger model enjoy the style in fashion magazine. A YouTuber makes accessories and cosplay bought by 100 yen shop and the videos are watched over six million times.

The women aged from ten to forty lead the boom of the anime. Why do they like it so much? A woman who aged 40 and work in the office said, ” The female characters was strong the same with boy’s and flight with rival characters”. On the other hand, a woman aged 30 said, ” When they fight, it is good that they are saved by weaker characters. It is so heart-warming. I really understand what they think and feel because I have experienced a kind of the same situation while my working. ” The other woman payed attention to a boss of a rival group. He scolded the subordinate, which is be power harassment. She said, ” I am also a manager in the office. I want to make confidence as a manager and care about it.

The story includes the boy’s comic style and catched the fan of women working in the modern business society. The movie will start this year. The boom of Demon Slayer will increase more.

Is the height and the length from one arm to another when both arms are stretched out horizontally? Two elementary school students in Kumamoto, Japan research about it and apply for science research projects competition. They received the award.

　

The research title is who is the same length of height and width~let’s compare height and the length of arms. They take a survey from a child to elderly people and analysed whether it is true and there are any difference between the generation. According to the research, when people are children, the height is longer than arm. However, the mature they are, the longer the arm becomes.

　

They applied for math research projects competition held by Science and Math research center in Japan . They received special award. There are over seventeen thousand projects and forteen projects are received prizes.

　

They speech about the project in front of all students in their school. After the presentation, they said that they are hard with researching but they are happy to go to the national competition.

Immigration services agencies in Japan makes the inspection of foreign people who apply for studying in Japan more strictly after April. In order to prevent them from staying in Japan for the purpose of working, the number of countries and areas where the students are requested for graduation certificate and deposit balance are ten times more than now. It is also for screening the students who stay in Japan ilegally and and taking advantages of special skilled workers system in order to expand the number of international employees legally.

It is for the first time in about thirty years that the screening method was changed significantly.

Now, the countries where Japanese put more strict screening rule on is China ( expecp for Hong Kong and some other areas) ,Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Mongolia. Immigration services agencies requested for various certifications like parents’ deposit balance and the relationship with parents.

However, international students from the other countries and areas come to Japan and stay in there illegally after they graduate from school. The number of foreign people who stay in Japan illegally after graduation is over 4,700.

That’s why immigration services designate 118 countries where good economic situation comparatively and the low risk of staying in Japan illegally as whitelists. If students who apply for studying in Japan are requested for submitting some certificates and proceed more strict screening.

Chinese students are designated as whitelists because the number of wealthy people increases and the number of illegal residence decreased. However, 80 countries like India and Cambodia are not put in the list.

International student are allowed to work for twenty-eight hours a week as a manual labor. According to the department of Health and Human services, the number of foreign students who work in Japan is three hundred eighteen thousand people and estimated to be nineteen percent of the foreign workers. Half of international students are working in Japan.

According to World Health Organization (WHO), masks and gloves shortages for protecting from infectious diseases are getting serious problems all over the world. Masks and gloves do not spread among medical related institution enoughly. WHO will corporate with several countries and companies.

The demands of masks and gloves are at maximum 100 times higher and the prices are 20 times higher than usual sales. There are some expensive masks online. Tedros, Director-General of WHO said that the market is getting severe chaotic situation. It is also important to use them for taking care of patients, but the situation is getting worse because some people use them inappropriately. The stock is getting shortage and he does recommend not to increase the stocks in some areas where there are fewer patients.

The infection of coronavirus are spreading and the number of patients reached over thirty one thousand. In Japan, there are 41 people who got the virus in Diamond Princess in Yokohama Harbor, a sightseeing cruise after quarantine. The passengers and crew members are ordered to be in the ship for two weeks, the virus incubation periods. WHO said that it is severe situation mentally and physically and corporate with Japanese authority.

WHO expressed the recognition that the infection rate is not high significantly because of closed special environment like shipment.

Shuenisya, which is a comic book publisher company apologized for the problem involved with “My Hero Academia”, which was famous comic series at Feburary 7th. The company was criticised because there is one character whose name is Shiga Maruta, that reminds some people of the past tragedic history. They said that they apologized deeply for making some people in China and other countries depressed.

　

Shiga Maruta was a doctor of a bad organization, that makes cyborgs secretely. Before World War Ⅱ, unit 731 Japanese army conducted human experimentation. The subjects were called Maruta. Some people expressed critics online. The company changed the character’s name.

　

Horikoshi Kouhei said that Maruta came from the character’s fatty, “Marumaruto” in Japanese and Shiga came from Shigaraki, which is other rival name. He insisted that he did not intend to hurt readers’ feeling and promised not to repeat the same incidents again.

　

The official site, Shukan Shonen Jump, said that author and editorial team did not intend it. Shueisha made comments that they should discuss the expressions prior to publish and keep on making efforts to learn history and culture for making their comics loved by a lot of readers.

　

In the comic series, there are a lot of characters who have their own unique points. Deku, the main characters, who did not have any uniqueness, made efforts and try to defeat the evil organization with friends. The story was called “Hero Aca” and loved by people all over the world.

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