<figure id="attachment_223558" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 4000px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-223558"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="0baeaeb1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/01/aflo_176623577.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-223558" class="wp-caption-text">100 days of preemptive safety driving. At last, the true value of the Kishida administration is being tested. As the person in charge of the lives and livelihoods of the people, I hope that he will manage his administration thoughtfully and not aim for &#8220;safety.</figcaption></figure>
All over the world, the new corona variant, Omicron, has been replaced by the new Variant, and the spread of infection has not stopped. While the number of newly infected people in the U.S. continues to increase to one million a day, Japan, which was said to have &#8220;miraculously contained&#8221; the infection, has finally entered the &#8220;sixth wave&#8221; of infection.
On April 7, Prime Minister Kishida announced the application of &#8220;priority measures to prevent the spread of the disease&#8221; to the three prefectures of Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, and Okinawa.
<h2>A nationwide state of emergency will be declared by the end of this month.</h2>
 I believe that metropolitan areas such as Tokyo, Osaka and Hokkaido will be subject to the same restrictions as last year. Not only that, but there is a very high possibility that a nationwide state of emergency will be declared in late January or February,&#8221; said a MHLW carrier.
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On January 3, Prime Minister Kishida hurriedly returned to the Prime Minister&#8217;s official residence from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, where he was spending his winter vacation with his family.
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<div>At 5:00 p.m., Prime Minister Kishida held emergency consultations with Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Shigeyuki Goto, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Deputy Prime Minister&#8217;s Advisor Seiji Kihara, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shunichi Kuryu, Minister of State for Economic Revitalization Daishiro Yamagiwa, Minister of State for Vaccines noriko Horiuchi, Vice Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Manabu Yoshida, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeshi Fujii, and Director-General of the Cabinet Secretariat&#8217;s Office for the Promotion of Countermeasures to Combat Infectious Diseases, including the new coronavirus Masami Sakoi.</div>
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Immediately after the meeting, MHLW Minister Goto held a press conference.
 After three weeks of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the utilization rate of hospital beds and accommodation facilities will be 50 percent. It is assumed that the utilization rate of hospital beds and accommodation facilities will exceed 50 It is expected that the usage rate of hospital beds and accommodations will exceed 50% in three weeks.
This means that the government shares the view that a pandemic will occur by the end of January. Prime Minister Kishida, who had anticipated this situation to some extent, has announced early and rapid measures. However.
 Kishida was stunned to learn that the spread of the disease had exceeded the government&#8217;s expectations several times over. Kishida was astonished that the spread of the disease was several times greater than the government had assumed. 1,000 &#8220;If the population ratio of Okinawa Prefecture is replaced by that of Tokyo, 1,000 new infections in Okinawa equals 10,000 in Tokyo. &#8230; Immediately apply measures to prevent the spread of the disease,&#8217; he instructed. We must take all possible measures to avoid following the rut of the previous Kan administration. This was an unexpected emergency for Prime Minister Kishida, who admitted that he had taken all possible measures to prevent the spread of the disease so as not to make the same mistake as the previous Kan administration.
<h2>Okinawa hit by virus brought in by US military</h2>
Meanwhile, officials at the Okinawa Prefectural Headquarters for Infectious Disease Control are not hiding their outrage at the government.
 As Denny Tamaki, the governor of Okinawa, said at a press conference, the reason there are so many cases in Okinawa is because the virus is &#8216;seeping out&#8217; from the U.S. military bases. As we have discussed with the prefectural government&#8217;s base response department, the U.S. military did not conduct entry/exit inspections for those who had already been vaccinated, did not set a restricted period for activities after entering Okinawa, and did not impose any restrictions on going out. People and viruses were free to come and go as they pleased. By the second day of the new year, the number of newly infected people in Okinawa Prefecture was only 51 On the second day of the new year, the number of newly infected people in Okinawa Prefecture was only 51.
On January 7, the number of newly infected people in Okinawa Prefecture exceeded 1,400. On January 7, the number of new infections in Okinawa Prefecture exceeded 1,400, a 28-fold increase in just five days. The Okinawa Prefectural Office of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention can only wonder and rage at the sloppiness and carelessness of the U.S. military&#8217;s infection control measures. Other U.S. military bases scattered across the country, including Iwakuni and Hiroshima, have also begun spreading the Omicron Variant from clusters suspected to be caused by infection control measures at the bases.
 As of June 6, the disease had already spread to four other bases: Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, Yokosuka Air Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, Atsugi Air Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Yokota Air Base in Tokyo. Nearly 300 In South Korea, a religious group has launched a new type of cocoon. In South Korea, a religious group was the source of the new corona, but in Japan, we have to assume that the U.S. military bases caused the sixth wave.
The U.S. military in Japan is an extraterritorial force for the Japanese government. The U.S. forces in Japan are extraterritorial to the Japanese government, and as a result, they have become a &#8220;hole&#8221; in Japan&#8217;s waterfront countermeasures.
 As a result, it has become a &#8220;hole&#8221; in Japan&#8217;s waterfront countermeasures. Japan requested the U.S. military base to take measures against the new corona. The Japanese requested the U.S. military base to take measures against the new corona. Only movement within the base was allowed. However, many violations of the rules have been confirmed, such as restrictions on movement off the base and failure to conduct inspections upon entry.
<h2>How to Overcome the First Crisis of the Kishida Administration</h2>
In a press conference, Shigeru Omi, chairman of the Subcommittee on Basic Policy, warned that a state of emergency may be declared.
 In a press conference, Shigeru Omi, chairman of the Subcommittee on Basic Policy, warned of the possibility of declaring a state of emergency, saying, &#8220;In the future, it is expected that some people will be seriously injured, and we will have to take immediate measures. We are theoretically thinking of declaring a state of emergency.
Referring to the situation in which a number of prefectures other than the three have requested priority measures, Mr. Omi appealed for the promotion of a third dose of vaccine for the elderly and declared that &#8220;resumption of GoTo Travel&#8221; was &#8220;not possible.
An aide to Prime Minister Kishida did not hide his concern.
 The previous Kan administration had no idea what was going on, and they just said, &#8216;Vaccine a day. 1 million doses a day. The previous Kan administration had no idea what was going on, so it just announced &#8216;1,000,000 doses of vaccine a day&#8217; to calm the pandemic. If the Kishida administration doesn&#8217;t make use of that experience and the infection spreads, it could be criticized more than the Kan administration for what Kishida is doing.
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One hundred days have passed since the Kishida administration took office. It has been 100 days since the inauguration of the Kishida administration, which has been running the government with a safety-first policy while minimizing friction with various factions within the party. The spread of the Omicron Variant is unstoppable. The real power of Prime Minister Kishida, who has been running his administration without any problems, is now being tested.

 Takashi Hashimoto

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 The world is being replaced by a new corona variant, Omicron, and the spread of infection continues unabated. In the U.S., the number of newly infected people is increasing at a rate of one million a day, and in Japan, which was said to have miraculously controlled the spread of the disease, the "sixth wave" of infection has finally hit.

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