Hirosaki newspaper company "Mutsu Shinposha" (Shimohiragincho, Hirosaki City, TEL 0172-34-3111) announced on April 10 that it would not report the cherry blossoms in Hirosaki Park.

Mutsu Shimpo announced on the 1st page of the same day under the heading "Self-restraint of cherry blossoms against corona measures" "We prioritize the avoidance of crowding around Hirosaki Park, and make a difficult decision to partially restrict our mission as a media."

Mutsu Shimpo is a newspaper that was first published in 1946 and is published in the Tsugaru area. This is the first time since the first issue that the cherry blossoms in Hirosaki Park are not reported. According to Satoshi Watanabe, the editor-in-chief of the company, the reporter posted a one-page article about cherry blossoms that he "found with his feet" every day during the Hirosaki Sakura Festival to provide citizens with spring topics.

"The local newspaper rooted in the local community cannot ignore the possibility of the spread of the new coronavirus. We abandoned the report because of the stubborn bowel," Watanabe said.

Hirosaki Park was closed from April 10th to May 6th to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and Hirosaki City requested that it refrain from reporting during the period and information transmission via SNS. According to the city, there is a concern that it will create a flow of people by transmitting information, and it will not transmit the flowering information or the originally planned live image of cherry blossoms.

Mr. Watanabe says, "Mutsu Shimpo doesn't put cherry blossoms on it. The biggest message we can deliver." "The live camera from Hirosaki Park, which was delivered from our building, was temporarily stopped."