The State of Coronavirus in Japan from an Everyday Citizen’s Perspective

“Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes.” — The Road (2009)

So I’ve been wrestling with the idea of doing this article for a while. Firstly, because there are so many articles on Coronavirus out there, I thought the Internet would be over saturated and sick of them by now. Secondly, because I thought that the hysteria would die down in a few months, but obviously that is not the case. Watching the way the world has handled the COVID-19 outbreak, I feel that Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel and film, The Road, is more relevant today than ever.

In this article, I’m going to talk about my personal experiences with COVID-19 in Tokyo, from the beginning of the outbreak to now. I’ll go over the state of Tokyo and Japan from the everyday citizen’s perspective, and how daily life and businesses are being affected by Coronavirus in Japan.

To put the article into perspective, I’m not as worried about the mortality rate of the virus as much as I’m worried about its overall effect on social infrastructure. More importantly, the greatest fear is the pandemic’s ability to incite fear and mass hysteria in our global…