{"id":112434,"date":"2020-05-04T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362303"},"modified":"2020-05-04T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:31:00","slug":"japans-cero-game-ratings-board-is-reopening-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/japans-cero-game-ratings-board-is-reopening-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s CERO game ratings board is reopening this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan\u2019s Consumer Entertainment Rating Organization is set to resume its game rating routines after having closed down last month to comply with Tokyo\u2019s shelter-in-place order.<\/p>\n

In a statement spotted and translated by Gematsu<\/a>, the board plans to resume business on May 7, but will shift its operating hours to 10:00 AM \u2013 4:00 PM to avoid contributing to peak business day traffic and is working to setup tele-working options \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Computer Entertainment Rating Organization was temporarily closed in response to a shelter-in-place request from the governor of Tokyo and a state of emergency declared in response to the novel coronavirus, but upon strengthening our infection prevention measures for employees and examiners, business will resume on May 7,\u201d reads that statement. \u201cWe apologize for the great concern and worry we caused our staff and related parties during the break.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reopening is right inline with CERO\u2019s plan from last month<\/a>, which saw all operations and game reviews suspended until May 6.<\/p>\n

Much like the United States\u2019 ESRB, CERO doles out age-based ratings to games angling for a Japanese release. Given that those ratings are required for games seeking a release in Japan and the organization\u2019s previous inability to shift to remote work, an extended closure would spell trouble for games currently in CERO\u2019s ratings queue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan\u2019s Consumer Entertainment Rating Organization is set to resume its game rating routines after having closed down last month to comply with Tokyo\u2019s shelter-in-place order. In a statement spotted and translated by Gematsu, the board plans to resume business on May 7, but will shift its operating hours to 10:00 AM \u2013 4:00 PM to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}