{"id":140633,"date":"2021-05-21T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140633&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T06:51:36","slug":"fukuoka-prefecture-requests-large-scale-shopping-facilities-to-close-on-weekends","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-prefecture-requests-large-scale-shopping-facilities-to-close-on-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Prefecture Requests Large Scale Shopping Facilities To Close on Weekends\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture tightened its business regulations to curtail the spread of the new coronavirus. Department stores, shopping malls (except shops for essential items,) some home appliance stores, fitness gyms and pachinko parlors, etc., would close on Sat. &amp; Sun. during the state of emergency period (~5\/31.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Large scale facilities with a floor space of 1,000 m2 or larger would be requested to close on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Further efforts in reducing in-office work at local businesses.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Residents and businesses are strictly asked to refrain from visiting other prefectures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These requests are in addition to others in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/updated-details-for-fukuokas-state-of-emergency-important\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">original requests<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announced as of May 12. As of May 20, Fukuoka Prefecture reported 399 more cases of the new coronavirus infections and four deaths linked to the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASP5N6SJ7P5NTIPE012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a> \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/life\/news\/210520\/lif2105200029-n1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sankei<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pref.fukuoka.lg.jp\/contents\/covid-19-portal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fukuoka Prefecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140634\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503.jpg?resize=1024%2C693&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C693&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C519&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1039&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1385&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Department stores, shopping malls (except shops for essential items,) some home appliance stores, fitness gyms and pachinko parlors, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5175],"class_list":["post-140633","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-corona","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}