118: Japan relaxes its border restrictions w/ Kanako Takahara
Deep Dive from The Japan Times
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Omicron Cases in Japan
Previously it seemed like japan was closing its borders to keep the variant out. But you know, once omecon was established here, and wes seeing a hundred thousand cases a day nation wide, it doesn't really make sense to keep that policy up ressin way. So how much did the change of the medical situation in japan affect the decision to relax the borders? Right from the start, akisido and the government were saying that,. ioll because the the infection situation in japans is significantly different than other countries' The assumption was that there are so many cases in jAPAN that the situation in JAPAN and other countries are basically the same. It
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