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There is no need to panic. There will be no interruptions to the nation's steady supplies of food and there are sufficient stocks.

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Japanese Agriculture Minister Taku Eto, calling on consumers to stay calm and not to rush and buy more food than they need.

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Panic buying is selfish and uncalled for. Stockpiling slowly over time and being prepared is smart. Two days ago a friend of mine was arguing his point that people should buy much more than they need so they can limit outings and that not doing so is selfish. Yesterday he was complaining that he couldn’t get milk. I couldn’t help but laugh.

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I'm not panicking (yet), but I do have a sense of playing Russian roulette when I'm standing too close to somebody I don't know.

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Dont panic, just be alert. Mindfulness and breath-work.

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How reassuring when so much of Japan's food supply is imported and this could very well cease when things get bad in the countries we import it from. Let alone the question of maintaining food supply chains when things soon explode within the country with lockdowns and mass illness. .

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Individually not panicked, but collective panicked people in super market to buy toilet paper, tissue-paper, disinfectant alcohol makes me uncomfortable this pandemic news here and there on tv to let the crowd there before doors and gates open, could be also cluster case.

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If there is a shortage from those countries because of the pandemic then there will be shortages in Japan.

Diversifying supply sources, such as importing from a range of countries, lessens the chance of a shortage. Relying on a single source, as with butter, raises the chance. Japan has had a number of butter shortages. 80% is produced in Hokkaido. It has since sought to end the shortages by, yes, importing more butter.

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When the government in Japan says we “shouldn’t” panic, that’s when you should panic.

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