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Japanese swimsuit models holding online drinking parties with fans to encourage them to stay home

Apr 30, 2020 (soranews24.com) - Some of Japan’s most popular and beautiful gravure models want you to stay home during the spring vacation period.

April 29 kicks off the string of Japanese holidays collectively known as Golden Week. In contrast to Japan’s more traditional vacation periods Oshogatsu (New Year’s) and Obon (in early August), for which people are expected to go back to their home towns and spend time with their extended family, Golden Week is a modern convention that was created to give people some much-needed leisure ad entertainment time to spend wherever they want.

Unfortunately, this year Golden Week is coming smack dab in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, as people across the nation are being strongly cautioned to stay home and help stop the spread of the disease. But in a country where time off from work is so rare and precious as Japan, how can you convince people not to head straight for the beaches, shopping centers, and other crowded, cluster candidate locations?

By offering online drinking parties with beautiful swimsuit models. That’s the plan from gravure talent agency R.I.P., anyway with its R.I.P. Girls Sakaba @Zoom Branch initiative.

Two of the participants are Rina Hashimoto (and Tomomi Morisaki

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