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118: Japan relaxes its border restrictions w/ Kanako Takahara

Deep Dive from The Japan Times

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Will They Be Able to Come in Under the New Border Policies?

A lot of people over the last two years have been affected massively by these border restrictions. And i think they kind of back and forth on these, you know, going between open and closed over and over again, has been particularly anxiety inducing for a lot of people. I don't think they will be allowed in for now, but fingers crossed they will be able to do that in the coming months. About forty percent of them were saying that if they cannot enter japan by april, which is the start of the academic year in japan, that they would switch to another country or give up coming to Japan entirely. Wol forty percents, a very high number. So i

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