Since the April 7 state of emergency announcement for Tokyo and six other prefectures, and the gradual easing of restrictions from May onward, a considerable amount of text in domestic media has been dedicated to eating.
In the beginning, an impressive number of articles focused on what to eat in order to develop greater immunity to ward off infection. More recently, weekly magazines and the tabloids have been full of articles about dealing with weight-gain during the lockdown, as evident by a new term in the Japanese lexicon — korona-butori (coronavirus weight-gain) — presumably caused by working remotely from home and a general lack of exercise.
Business magazine Weekly Toyo Keizai (June 27) sent a reporter to Ginza in Tokyo, where the area's high-class nightclubs had closed across the board.