The governors of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo asked the central government Saturday to include their western Japan prefectures in the state of emergency that took effect a day earlier for the Tokyo region over the resurging coronavirus.The three governors met online with Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister in charge of the government's response to the pandemic, a day after their prefectures all reported record numbers of infection.While stating that the three prefectures "are in an extremely serious situation where an emergency declaration is being considered," Nishimura said he would make a decision a…READ FULL ARTICLE
