. . . Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral in London in September, attended by Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wearing face masks. . .
I hope this global trend of unmasking will help Japanese citizens overcome their paranoia about domestic masking. In particular, if Japanese citizens, such as the emperor, do not wear masks when traveling outside Japan, is it rarely very hypocritical to expect visitors to wear an internal face mask from Japan?
People would use them.
OK, terrible infection rate when wearing the mask. If the stranger can’t wear the mask, how can he lower the infection rate from now on?So, let’s know now that if whoever has 3 injections of the covid19 vaccine returns to Japan, they could have covid, but how can they know if there is no control?So, the worst covid infection has to come from those who don’t have all 3 vaccines, then blocked because they are in control and failed!It’s a brilliant policy. Foreigners will flock to Japan.
Let’s face it, the Japanese will continue to wear masks no matter what. It’s been several months since Kishida went out of her way to announce that they are not needed outside, but almost all Japanese people use them anyway!Women in particular have a tendency to wear makeup whenever they pass out, so dressing in a mask saves them time and they probably won’t need to go back to what they were before.
Foreigners have to wear masks, this obviously does not respect the rules. If tourists don’t wear masks, they will definitely wear them inside the train. They will be sanctioned if they do not wear masks.
Good photo. There seem to be 4-5 people out there with a non-unusual sense.
How does the caption know that the other people in the photo are “foreign visitors”?
The time has come for us to avoid being dictated by society’s fearful and illogical maxims.
It’s time for you to get your head out of this two-and-a-half-year bubble of worry and try to think clearly and objectively for a change.
Think? I stay with mine thank you very much!
It’s okay – Hide anywhere – collect as many vax stamps as you can – Then, let incoming tourists and the rest of us go on with our lives in peace, as you’re already “protected”. Maybe you’ll even say it’s a choice.
And here, the phobia will return as citizens will be afraid that the virus will spread faster when in reality, cases were at their peak DURING those strict quarantine measures. Breaking news: it’s not because of foreigners. Just treat everyone with respect.
Even my Japanese wife began to notice that drivers traveling alone wear masks, it is strange to see a couple dressed with them in their car, do they sleep in the same room wearing masks?It seems that the herd of tourists is simply not welcome.
. . . The use of masks is a daily tradition among citizens.
We see that the term “customized” is used more to explain Japan’s masking.
Before COVID, masks were used as a short-term transience measure to treat seasonal allergies or colds or flu.
The drastic relaxation of COVID-19 border controls in Japan
Radical?Do you mean being the last G7 country to normalize again?That drastic?
Let other people wear a mask if necessary. But also let other people who don’t need to use one do what they need. Unfortunately, this requires admitting that masks are not used or rarely used to prevent infection. That will never be allowed. This would leave the door open to admission as the vaccine does little to save you from infection. Moreover, this asymptomatic spread is not a statistical problem. Another point that would later lead to consulting PCR as a valid diagnostic tool. Wear a mask and get your reminder. Also, when it comes to science, don’t do your own research.
The Japanese government has done nothing to debunk the myth that foreigners are to blame for the spread of Covid in Japan even though they have largely been banned for two and a half years.
Follow the science. . . .
In recent months, the countries with the maximum number of masks in Southeast Asia (Japan, Taiwan and South Korea) have led the planet in Covid cases.
Obviously, masking the paintings, so we will have to not question this practice and only comply with it.
Let’s see what we learned from heavily masked populations in 2022.
They save you from infection (No).
They save you transmission (No).
They save you deaths (No).
They save you from admission to intensive care (No).
They save you hospitalization (No).
They are (No).
Possibly would be (
Edit: can be (lately we are here)
Haven’t we done with the nonsense of “put on a mask on others”?
Even the vaccine hasn’t been tested for transmission, so anything that “thinks about others” sucked, as we know.
The irony of everything he does here never ceases to amaze me.
They got rid of the requirement to get a PCR control if you received 3 injections. . . and otherwise a negative PCR control is required. . . So, in fact, the only tourists who are likely to bring the virus to Japan are those who have gained 3 or more shots because they don’t want to have a PCR test. For example, Kishida stuck to Covid after being vaccinated four times. So, basically, Japan’s position is. . . If you have received 3 or more injections . . . you have the right to introduce Covid into Japan, while those who have 2 shots or less do not.
That said, in all likelihood, it’s tourists who are more likely to catch Covid among locals than the other way around. . .
As for the masks. . . well, government rules say it’s okay NOT to use them outside. . . So if foreign visitors don’t do it outside, why even be a topic of verbal exchange or have your photo splashed on a news site??
Personally, I am susceptible to wearing a mask for infection through Japanese citizens infested with coronavirus.
Well, no, really. . .
But it’s funny, given the number of Japanese who have already had it, to recommend that they might worry about infecting us foreigners.
I think the mask is a bit old at the moment, but I’d at least like to wear one on trains and stuff like that.
And if the Japanese need to hold on to their masks, let them. Force anyone, Japanese or foreign, to wear one.
Children have the “Why do I have to go out with my parents?”Look at their faces.
Ego Sum Lux Mundi
How does the caption know that the other people in the photo are “foreign visitors”?
He added: “I sought to get the prime minister to refrain from taking steps to invite more foreigners to Japan for sightseeing. I am seriously involved in the infection. “
In fact, some Japanese believe that we, as tourists, will infect them, even though with so few foreigners visiting Japan, the infection rate remains high. We are not the cause of the highest infection rates in Japan.
I think some Japanese will never settle for foreign tourists again.
I must say that I find it terribly desirable to see how Japan will emerge from this hidden impasse.
She [Horoko-san] added: “I looked for the prime minister in chorus to take steps to invite more foreigners to Japan for sightseeing. I am seriously involved in the infection. “
um ma’am, you’ve probably already had it. There are simply no symptoms. It is estimated that almost one hundred percent of us have had it at least once now. Stop living in fear.
Japan is back to doing what it does best, writhing in confusion and worry about a problem. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has evolved. Stay dressed in those Japanese masks.
The Japanese will wear masks forever.
End its strict border controls, the strictest of the world’s major economies.
No, it isn’t. Triple O PCR vaccine measures before the 72-hour departure are still in effect.
Japan has been quite successful in spreading COVID and keeping it online longer than other countries without foreign tourists, so how is it going to be worse with the arrival of foreign tourists?I think most Japanese people are wise enough to notice. What.
There’s never been a mask mandate in Japan, as a Japanese, you know?
Ego Sum Lux MundiToday at 16:47 JST
How does the caption know that the other people in the photo are “foreign visitors”?
I’m pretty sure he would have asked before putting their faces on a public news site.
Most Japanese mask-clad don’t do it because of illness, it’s now a form of socialArray
“Look at me with my mask, I am a citizen. “
In an exercise or in a store the moment you leave home?Stop it!
The alarmist rhetoric has begun for them, I see.
All Japanese tourists here in Scandinavia live without a mask.
“Since May 20, the government has been proposing to remove the face mask in certain circumstances, whether outdoors or indoors, but even in the harsh summer months this year, many Japanese wore masks everywhere. “
“A lot”, you 95%, right?
Japan’s drastic relaxation of COVID-19 border controls could bode well for the domestic tourism sector hit by the pandemic, but it may also raise concerns that the first influx of visa-free foreign travelers in more than two years could also spread further. Infections in the country.
Mind!
Hiroko Tanaka, a 39-year-old housewife living in Tokyo, told Kyodo News: “Even if the prime minister clearly gives us the green light to take off our masks from internal buildings, I will keep putting on masks until we can buy coronavirus without problems. “medicine from a pharmacy. ” He added: “I sought to get the prime minister to refrain from taking steps to invite more foreigners to Japan for sightseeing. I am seriously involved in the infection. “
Imagine saying so incredibly uninformed and stupid.
Someone tells me, if those vaccines are so effective, why are other people here still terrified?
I have been vaccinated times
Bravo Japan! You have only six months for the rest of the world in this case (turn your eyes)
The Japanese will continue to wear face masks for the foreseeable future, not because of the scale of foreigners, but because the concern of allocation continues unabated. Wherever you go, you are asked to wear a mask, sanitize your hands, sit behind plastic screens. and check the frame temperature. Until other people begin to accept that this virus rarely goes anywhere, that it is, or at least becomes endemic and that most people will eventually become inflamed and recover absolutely in most cases, then the obsession with mask dress continues.
I haven’t noticed a depressing face in 3 years, nor a smile or facial expression. I had returned to aust for several weeks, and other people were smiling and I saw faces!Not here!
Thanks to tourists who don’t wear masks, stay that way.
“Although Japan no longer has an official mask mandate, wearing a mask has a daily tradition among citizens for more than two years since the outbreak broke out in early 2020. “
People here wear masks for various reasons and we’re not going to talk about it, COVID has turned out to be one of them.
Yes, foreigners are the explanation for why the Japanese are still masked. Don’t worry about the fact that you’ve been the country with the most masked people on the planet for the past two years when there were almost no foreigners coming in. Let’s also forget the factthat completely masked Japan led the world in number of cases/victims this summer. Long live xenophobia.
As soon as other people enter hotels, izakaya, bars and restaurants, they can throw away the mask without any problems. Certainly not outside.
Use one on trains, buses, and it’s a small value to pay for harmony. The Japanese will never give up wearing a mask now. Too ingrained.
I have enjoyed firsthand several times I traveled to the United States this year and watched Japanese colleagues and tourists temporarily remove their masks after arriving there. I don’t care if tourists visiting Japan wear masks or not. There’s too much hypocrisy around this issue and I think the media gets on top of that. Do what you want and if you are worried do not go to tourist places or restaurants.
Using one on trains, buses and is a small value to pay for harmony.
It is harmony.
This is dystopia. It is a faceless, impassive dystopia.
It’s not human. We are not made to live like this. We are human beings. We are meant to see the faces of others and make others see our own. It is an integral component of human communication and interaction.
It is unhealthy, psychologically, and dehumanizing to continue to wear face diapers constantly.
For a virus that, in a country of 130 million people, a small number of other people get?And for almost everyone who gets it, it’s benign, not worse than a flu or a bad cold?
Seriously, is that why we continue to live in an impassive and faceless dystopia?About a virus that, as much as the media continues to sensationalize it, is serious enough to deserve the hypochondriac attention it receives?
Turning society into an impassive and faceless dystopia is not “harmony”.
“A lot”, you 95%, right?
Where was it founded in Japan? Around here (Kanto region), it is closer to the 99. 9% masked (or 1 in 1000 without mask) on the streets at least. And 80% masked when driving.
In fact, they are afraid of something. To get an idea of how it got out of control here, notice this: I went to a place to eat the other day. I had to mask myself and sanitize my hands at the door before I was allowed in. After sitting down at the table, I allowed Myself to unmask myself. Once I finished eating, I chatted for a while without a mask with my colleague (also unmasked), then masked, paid and came out completely masked. This is crazy.
Reasons why other people here love their masks,
It keeps the nose and winter air a little warmer.
Prevents spring pollen from entering
It keeps the yellow sand from sandstorms out of the lungs.
It prevents smoke and fumes from burning waste from the lungs.
It keeps rainy, moist air out of the lungs.
Hide all imperfections and herbal problems.
Send a message of Don’t bother me to some or even wo.
Before COVID, many young people used masks as a tool to hide their makeup or identity.
Other than that, other people don’t like to wear masks, but are worried about getting infected.
Wherever you go, you are asked to wear masks, sanitize your hands, sit behind plastic screens and check the temperature of the frame.
It’s funny, in a big training hospital last week several times and I haven’t experienced that.
Tanaka-san is in a position for the long journey, it seems. If the general public is as “smart” as she is, the masks will never fall off, even if they are useless. The magic mask is prevalent in Japan.
Japan wants greater support for intellectual fitness.
Then a stranger gets off the plane, heads straight to asakusa, grabs an alcoholic beverage, takes off his mask, and begins to parade. Of course, you will receive looks and comments. This is Japan.
He added: “I sought to get the prime minister to refrain from taking steps to invite more foreigners to Japan for sightseeing. I am seriously involved in the infection. “
Imagine you’re so ignorant and think it’s okay to say those things.
Stupid.
Foreigners have to wear masks, this obviously respects the rules.
What rule, social pressure?
The journalist purposely chose a photo wearing a foreign mask.
Although Japan no longer has an official mandate
What the fuck are they talking about??? There was never an official mask mandate during the entire pandemic and yes, I lived in Japan the whole time.
I will continue to wear a mask until we can safely buy coronavirus drugs in pharmacies
You will heal as I did and more than 95% without any medication. And then, despite everything, realize your exaggerated fear.
Masks prevent infection or transmission, but they are terrible for children’s environment and social development.
Radical
How can this be so drastic when it’s the Japanese who have covid?
On the contrary, tourists are about to get angry with the Japanese.
Double standards, paranoia and racism are simply necessary!
Covid is here, couldn’t it disappear, avoid blaming foreigners for it?How thick are some people?
One of the other people in the photo with the foreigners is not dressed in a mask and is Japanese.
I see other Japanese here every day without masks!
One of the other people in the photo with the foreigners is not dressed in a mask and is Japanese.
Do you mean the wearer with a chin mask?It turns out that he is with strangers, so he doesn’t count.
I haven’t discovered any other Japanese without a mask, but I may be wrong. It made me think that Japan released a game like Where’s Waldo?where you locate the user without a mask.
It was at the F1 Grand Prix at the weekend. . . Many Japanese lost their masks after mixing with gaijins that did not bother either. . . In the paddock, we all laughed without masks and 75% of the people were Japanese.
“Japan’s drastic easing of COVID-19 border controls would likely bode well for the domestic tourism sector affected by the pandemic, but it may also raise considerations that the first influx of visa-free foreign travelers in more than two years may also be more contagious in the country. “
Enough xenophobia and/or outright racism, Japan. The country led the world in new infections until a few months ago or less, when almost ZERO foreigners were coming in. When you allowed the Japanese to leave the Diamond Princess and return home. Through public transport, and the spread began, not the foreigners still trapped on the boat.
therougou: “It made me think, Japan releases a game like Where’s Waldo, where you locate the wearer without a mask. “
I guess it would be that page in the eBook where EVERYONE in the picture is Waldo, because of each and every user I’ve noticed going out or watching something today, maybe 5% were dressed in their mask correctly, and at most. They weren’t dressed in one at all. It was only in the news before, when the foreign minister was asked why incoming foreign tourists should wear a mask while Japanese did not, and he replied that most Japanese do, unless there are stalls with walls that can remove them. This is a ridiculous answer for several reasons. 1) It is a lie. 2) A partition with a virus in the air is as useful as one aspect of a place to eat that does not allow smoking and the other smoking (without walls and not the latter being an enclosed space).
Who are we fooling!?
Tourists or not, nothing has changed, wherever you go, the mask is mandatory, as is the use of disinfectant and temperature.
The mask is one thing, but all over the world they have stopped the disinfectant because it is obviously exaggerated and does nothing.
The same goes for taking your temperature.
I’m in an OK store and I see other people coming in and grabbing a full first of paper towels pumping a load of sanitizer and cleaning the basket!
The place where we ate while we ate dinner is told to speak without a mask.
This has been the scenario without tourists, so warn, it turns out that the Japanese public and companies are not in condition and possibly will never be in a position to avoid those things, even my cardiology clinic asks me to take my temperature and use a disinfectant just to renew my prescription.
I am left with the doubt of what they owe me if I have a bleeding and want medicine or remedy of center at the same time.
If I have a fever, they’re going to leave me.
It is time to prevent stupidities, the most common is that we get vaccinated and with that we may not get seriously ill at this point, not another flu.
Time for normally
Wear a mask if you need one and respect others’ choice not to wear it.
How does the caption know that the other people in the photo are “foreign visitors”?
She doesn’t know unless she asks. Other than that, she had a hunch. Me too.
For these reasons that are intuitions:
(1) Four white gaijin walking together at a prominent Tokyo attraction.
(2) Man with backpack.
(3) Man with a drink while walking. *
(4) Companions (probably relatives) tired and bored after being dragged to the fifth temple of the day.
As for unmasking. . . Masking is torture on a hot day. Perhaps everyone has been beaten four times and feels safe and non-threatening to those around them. Logical. Based on science. But nothing in the mask crusade since 2020 was based on science.
I take off my mask at the first opportunity, but I don’t do it in crowds.
I agree with Antique, it’s all silly and looks extraordinarily silly to the rest of the world. It’s not as strict in Osaka as it seems in Tokyo, I haven’t worn a mask at all for a few weeks and haven’t commented yet. . Notice I’m dressed in one now, on a flight north with my spouse for a well-deserved rest.
Go ahead and mask yourself if you are afraid, it is not up to me to tell you to take it off. But some of those regulations to me just don’t make any logical sense. For example, every time you walk into a bathhouse, each and every one takes off their mask and starts talking near locker rooms and swimming areas. As soon as they leave the locker room, it’s the mask again. It’s probably not a smart concept to repurpose an infested bacteria-mask you used to wear before putting it back on after bathing.
For any tourist coming to Japan, please note: there is no legislation related to wearing masks, but hotels can now deny you access in the event of an outbreak and discriminate against the ways they breathe fresh air. We don’t need an unnecessary mask that is destructive to our environment and our children.
If they discriminate, feel free to tell Trip Advisor or social media so other people can discriminate when visiting your businesses too.
That’s right.
The government may want to start implementing mask bans to prevent all this!
False flag
Today 19:54 JST
Kyoto last week and was wall-to-wall mask for Gion where restaurants didn’t mask anything.
Tokyo is mask everywhere!
What a joke! People from countries with fewer cases than Japan this year should be feared now because they are foreigners.
Of the 3 countries I visited last year, it was in Japan that I stuck to Covid.
However, after having been for several months and having socialized many times without a mask, I still do not have it: lucky or immune?
He added: “I sought to get the prime minister to refrain from taking steps to invite more foreigners to Japan for sightseeing. I am seriously involved in the infection. “
Are you serious about Tokyo? It’s like a provincial bully.
Thank God, “foreigners” are waking up Japan!
Mask yourselves in front of the barbarians! Really? Science has shown that paper masks have nothing to do with Corona. Get other people to use them. Nothing has replaced much in Japan since I lived there in the 80s, which now have cell phones,
What a false claim given that Japan has been on the loose for years and the virus is rampant!
How many tourists will return home with Covid having picked it up in Japan?
@kurisupisu
Japan has been hit hard despite the absence of tourists and universal vaccination and mask wearing.
Remember “follow the science”? It’s funny, talk about it now. Wearing masks indoors has little to no effect: they are absolutely dead in the open air.
Masks don’t go anywhere until elementary/secondary/secondary schools avoid applying them. It will then be removed from the rest of the community. Next April (next school year) would be the right time to end it once and for all.
I run my own eikaiwa, and I would like to end the mask in April, which will disappear with the inevitable next wave of tourists from the crown.
I expect government to operate at “the speed of science” as Pfizer does. We don’t want any deception in case tourists lose confidence and don’t come here. Vaccine and PCR needs don’t make sense to visitors unless they are also necessary for daily life. of the country’s population.
Japan’s relaxation of COVID-19 access restrictions may require citizens to wear masks
So what? Does it bother you?
@Jay: This list is a copy and paste of why vaccines don’t work, even Pfizer executives admitted it didn’t prevent transmission, one of the big lies of this decade.
Japanese people feel comfortable dressed in a face mask as it leads to a greater sense of security in an environment that has the possibility of transmissibility of an infection. The face mask is now dressed in one. Sure, they may not be one hundred percent effective, but instead, would we all walk around with biohazard attacks?
Opening borders to foreigners has become a necessity rather than a subtlety. This resolution brings consequences, one of which will be the resurgence of infections, we just have to settle for that. Fortunately, hospitals shouldn’t be more prepared to deal with those infections. and not just turn away patients, as it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish COVID from other non-unusual diseases, such as the non-unusual cold.
With this decision comes, one of which will be a resurgence of infections.
Are you sure? So will foreigners be blamed for the wave, even if there is no evidence?
Rules are regulations, if you don’t like it, then don’t come. Typical Westerners impose what they need on others.
This “safety” of mask has extra worry about mixing with others.
Every part of human life in public has become unbearable and unnecessarily isolating and dark. . .
Welcome your dollars, strangers, but don’t interrupt our illusions, please. . .
Japan’s relaxation of COVID-19 access restrictions may require citizens to wear masks
The Japanese wear masks anyway.
They wore them, on the recommendation of fitness professionals, even when the WHO company pleaded with others not to wear masks unless they were sick.
https://www. cnn. com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recomendación-trnd/index. html
They wore them, on the recommendation of fitness professionals, even when the WHO company pleaded with others not to wear masks unless they were sick.
The Japanese wore masks when they had symptoms, which is completely in line with the recommendations of Japanese experts such as the foreign fitness government such as the WHO.
This is justified because it was what was supported through the evidence, and especially with the significant shortage of mask that also occurred in Japan and that forced to prioritize its use precisely when its effect was already proven, that is, in hospitals and treating symptomatic. patients
I just received visitors from my hometown of Perth at our children’s karate dojo here in Fukui and the Australians couldn’t. All the children were dressed in masks during training. They were right to ask themselves too, enough is enough.
I just sent a note to parents saying that masks are no longer compulsory education and that the selection is up to them whether they take them off or not. If someone doesn’t throw the ball, the damn things will stay here forever. Little courage, but young people should not have to suffer. (The little poor things also adhere to the “rules”) and it was terrible to see them panting and having difficulty breathing. Now is the time to remove them.
Toru Hashimoto, a former governor of Osaka and now a political commentator, said Monday on a television screen that Kishida “completely missed the opportunity” to urge the public to remove their face masks while asking foreign visitors to wear them at the funeral. Abe
Hashimoto what.
“. . . masks, one of the smart equipment to fight the coronavirus in Japan”, Really?And how does it work?
Rules are regulations, if you don’t like it, then don’t come. Typical Westerners impose what they need on others.
Read the article again. He obviously says that there is no government mask order, so what exactly do Westerners “impose” on others?