Masaharu Takeda (48), who has starred in Japanese dramas such as Doctor-X and New Life of Kai, is 48 years old.
Masaharu Takeda developed fever from 31 December and began resting at home. On January 2, after a persistent fever, he underwent an antigen test and was judged to be infected with COVID-19.
At present, Takeda's situation has settled down and she will recuperate at home, and her wife and two related people have been identified as close contacts.
Makoto Takeda also participated in the December 28 broadcast of "Brothers Domoto", in addition to the host KinKi Kids (Koichi Domoto, Tsuyoshi Domoto), guests also included Koshi Nakamura, Takamizawa Toshihiko, Nishikawa Takashi, DAIGO, and Takahashi Minami.
However, the show should have been recorded earlier, and the guests who participated were not listed as close contacts. (To spit on the Japanese definition of close contacts, is the two sides do not wear masks, talk for more than 30 minutes to be considered a close contact, before the domestic news said that there is a case in the wet market 15 seconds to be infected)
The third artist to be released today is Kanji Ishimaru, who starred in "Naoki Hanzawa".
Kanji Ishimaru and Shinji Takeda were scheduled to star in the musical Parade, which opened on January 15, but now the entire crew has undergone PCR testing, and whether to start a performance in the future depends on the instructions of medical institutions.
Another confirmed artist is Hiroshi Yokoyama, a member of Janis's idol group Seki 8.
In the past month or so, in the Japanese showbiz circle, a number of artists have been diagnosed with infection: Daiki Sato, Miya Shirama, Yuki Rei, Shunsuke Kazema, Taimi Tsubaki, Takuya Onyama, Okawa Suzuki, Haruna Iwa, etc., as well as 5 members of the 9-member boy group BOYS AND MEN, 3-member funny artist group HANACO are all infected, Hamasaki's concert cast and crew are infected, and the scheduled New Year's Eve concert was urgently stopped.
There are so many artists infected, then among all Japanese, the number of confirmed cases is even more, the number of confirmed cases in December exceeded 100,000 in the whole month, of which Tokyo exceeded 1,300 on December 31.
January 4 is exactly 200 days before the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, but the epidemic situation is getting worse, but the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee has not given up hosting the Olympic Games, but has also made a step back, and The President of the Japanese Olympic Committee, Yasuhiro Yamashita, said that the event may be held without spectators.
In such a grim form, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said today that he is considering issuing an emergency declaration targeting 1 capital region and 3 prefectures in the tokyo metropolitan area, where the new crown epidemic is seriously spreading.
The three prefectures of 1 capital refer to the three prefectures of Tokyo and Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa, and will announce emergencies as soon as January 9, which will be implemented at 00:00 this Saturday, and the estimated period is about one month.
After Japan entered the emergency situation in April last year, Japanese dramas and movies were all suspended, this time again into the emergency situation, which is what Japan calls the "self-purging period", Japanese television stations will also respond to the request, stop filming TV series again, then the upcoming winter Japanese dramas are likely to be collectively postponed, the upcoming Japanese dramas are "My Daughter Can't Have a Boyfriend" (starring Miho Sugano), "Heaven and Hell" (starring Haruka Ayase), "Oh! My Boss! Love Release Book (starring Moe Ueshi Shiraishi), RED EYES (kazuya Kameari starring).
I can only say that I hope that this epidemic will pass as soon as possible, everything will really return to normal, and everyone in Japan will pay attention to prevention and control, especially try to go to Ikebukuro as little as possible.