When the global pandemic hit Japan, the nation’s residents were asked to #stayhome to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. And a lot of us were at risk of going stir-crazy.
To deal with the so-called aratana nichijō (new normal) we were encouraged to take up new hobbies (or revisit old ones) and that, in turn, helped many of us bring out the creative aspects of our personalities.
Darryl Wharton-Rigby, 52, didn’t need a pandemic to help him get creative. A native of Baltimore, this writer and filmmaker first came to Japan in 2003 and currently lives in the Kanto region with his family, where they’ve been hunkering down through the COVID-19 state of emergency.