Ryu Tokyo Weekly Digest - Social Distancing Gaming and Stimulus Packages

This Week In Japan

English - April 25, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
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Previous Episode: Final Fantasy and Animal Crossing Sales Explode

Next Episode: A Classic Anime Revives and A Black Company Falls

(Recorded on April 24th, 2020, in Roppongi, Tokyo) This week in Japan, following the national declaration of a state of emergency, persistent pachinko players and imaginative creators are responding differently to the news.

- Play as Governor Koike in The Social Distancing Game (Mitsu-desu Game)

- Government Declares Nation-wide State of Emergency

- Abe Shinzo and his 10man Plan

- Popular Anime Series One Punch Man is Potentially Getting a Hollywood Movie

- Pachinko Industry Under Fire

- Word of the week: Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク)