I definitely teared up :’) He is so sweet

 

+alternate translation

 

 

 

This message from Yuzuru would mean a lot to the Japanese fans, as they know he is speaking not only from the heart but from hard-won experience of disaster and the fear it brings...

 

 

1 hour ago, monchan said:

aAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Finally something current! 

2 hours ago, monchan said:

aAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

Naw his hair is so flat! The terrible effect of not being able to zoom around a rink to fluff it up

3 hours ago, monchan said:

aAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

tfw you watch this, don't understand a thing and start to smile before you even realise

boy looks healthy

 

At news.

And another translation.

 

 

#important

 

 

ah he's the cutest!!

What a relief to see him safe and heathy 

If UK got the queen to do motivational speech during covid, Japan got Yuzuru Hanyu. 

And the tweet has already reached 200,000 views, I think a lot of people in Japan and elsewhere are drawing from it.

 

 

 

As he doesn't say anything about his current training circumstances (maybe not to make envious his training mates), I tried to see if the rink was still open.

I found this calendar but as it is a PDF, I cannot get an automatic translation.

https://icerink-sendai.net/uploads/event/20200417120546_394434743.pdf

What do the red signs from April 4th to May 6th say? Would the whole rink have been closed all that time, or only to general public? There don't seem to be any news relating to the general state of emergency announced yesterday. I suppose that, if anything were to hit the rink, it would be announced by the Miyagi governor today or tomorrow?

By the way, I found this nice page from 2012, stating Sendai as the birthplace of figure skating in Japan :

https://en.japantravel.com/miyagi/ice-skating-in-sendai/3279

I wonder where this pond is.

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