パチンコ店に休業指示　特措法に基づき全国初―兵庫、神奈川県

　兵庫県は１日、休業要請に応じず店名公表後も営業を続けている神戸市内のパチンコ店３店に、新型インフルエンザ対策特別措置法４５条３項に基づき休業を指示した。要請よりも効力が強い行政処分に当たる指示は全国初。神奈川県も同日、横浜市内のパチンコ店１店に休業指示を行った。いずれも指示に従わない場合の罰則はない。
　兵庫県の井戸敏三知事は同日の記者会見で「（休業要請に）協力していただきたかったが、法律に基づく措置で、しっかりと行う必要がある」と経緯を説明。引き続き３店に休業への協力を求める考えを示した。罰則がないことには「残念ながらこれ（指示）以上の対応は与えられていないので、できない。歯がゆさを感じる」とも語った。
　兵庫県は４月２７～２８日、同法４５条２項に基づいて、休業要請に応じない神戸市と豊岡市、佐用町の７店の店名を公表。１日午前１１時までに４店の休業を確認したが、神戸市内の３店は確認できなかった。
　一方、神奈川県の黒岩祐治知事は１日、休業指示に至ったことについて「大変残念だ」と語った。横浜市内の１店について「まさに密な状態で、クラスター（感染者集団）になる可能性が非常に高い」と指摘。「みんなで感染拡大を抑えようと努力する中で、この店の行動で危険性がどんどん増えていくことを放置できない」と説明した。（2020/05/01-19:36）

Business suspension orders were issued in Japan on Friday for pachinko pinball parlors remaining open despite closure requests and the public release of their names in efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, in the first such actions against any type of business.
   The Hyogo prefectural government issued its orders to three pachinko parlors in Kobe, the capital of the western prefecture, while the eastern prefecture of Kanagawa made its order to a parlor in the prefectural capital of Yokohama.
   The orders were issued based on the third paragraph of Article 45 of the revised special measures law to combat new strains of influenza, which now covers the novel coronavirus as well. The orders amount to an administrative action with stronger force than business suspension requests under the second paragraph of the same article of the amended legislation. No penalties are set for violators, however.
   "We asked (the three pachinko parlors) yesterday to cooperate with our business suspension requests, and we ordered them to shut based on the law today after confirming that they remained open this morning," Hyogo Governor Toshizo Ido said at a meeting of the Hyogo government's coronavirus response headquarters on Friday.
   Between Monday and Tuesday, the Hyogo government, based on the second paragraph of Article 45, asked seven pachinko parlors in the prefecture to close after they refused to accept its earlier suspension requests made under a different article of the law, and published their names. Three of the seven are in Kobe, three in the city of Toyooka and two in the town of Sayo.