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The Prefectural Government of Osaka is considering a plan together with municipalities to offer one million yen each to small businesses and 500,000 yen to each sole proprietor who follows the prefecture’s temporary closure request from April 15th to May 6th.

A total of about 60,000 businesses in the prefecture are expected to be eligible. Osaka Prefecture released the following list of facilities subject to the suspension of operations on April 14th. Mr. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Governor of Osaka Prefecture stressed that those aid schemes and closure requests should be treated as a package style.

http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/attach/38112/00000000/Revised(EN)Facility%20Use%20Restrictions%20.pdf