The move allows governors in seven affected regions including Tokyo to ask people to stay indoors and request that businesses close.
Japan on Tuesday declared a month-long state of emergency over a spike in coronavirus cases, ramping up efforts to contain infections but stopping short of the strict lockdowns seen in other parts of the world.
"We will beat the virus, we will defeat the virus and we can overcome the ordeal of this state of emergency." And he warned that people would have to reduce contacts by 70-80 percent if the emergency was to be lifted in a month. The measure will last through to the end of the Golden Week holiday, one of the country's biggest travel periods."It may cause inconvenience in daily life, but I call for everyone's cooperation because lives are at stake," Koike told reporters earlier.
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