To be clear, this is not a COVID-19 thing, as these decisions were being made clear back in July 2019. The company itself isn’t shutting down as all reports on the Japanese offices seem to be normal, albeit under current self-quarantine circumstances. The best guess from anyone is that the company simply decided to stop having a U.S.-based office, but have gone about letting everyone in the company know about it in some of the most negligent ways possible. We’ll see how this develops from here, but if anyone is still employed by the company in North America, it looks like they won’t be for long.