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So, it will take over 80 days. Assuming that 5,000 will enter every day. If a student can only make it on the 80th day, it means that a whole trimester is lost.

Actually, there are only an extra 1500 spaces daily. It’s going to take over 270 days to clear the backlog of nothing changes.

Estimates have the total amount around $15 Billion. There are only 339 events. Does spending $45,000,000 per event really sound like a good way to spend tax payer money? Not only that, we couldn’t even see the events in person! Extravagant waste of money!

It’s great that we’ve reached this number and I hope that we can continue to get people vaccinated. However, the slow start meant thousands of unnecessary infections, hundreds of unnecessary deaths, months of unnecessary social restrictions, and an Olympics that we paid for but couldn’t attended. That’s hardly a situation to be proud of.

More violence against women in safety Japan. Seems pretty endemic at this point.

When it comes to violent attacks like rape and murder (among other crimes) public safety should trump these types of laws that protect the identity of minors. Especially when we are talking about someone who is 19.

Whatever happened to the concept of "herd immunity"? With 82% fully vaccinated, it seems that draconian measures like this are not needed.

I see this kind of comment a lot. You have to remember that we need over 80% of the entire population to be vaccinated in order to reach any type of herd immunity. 82% of Canadian over 12 years old are fully vaccinated. There are over 4 million children under the age of 12. That means there is only about 70% of the entire population vaccinated in Canada now.

I like the idea of Go To but not during a pandemic. If they insist on doing it soon there should at least be a requirement to prove you’ve been vaccinated. It would also be better to wait until the adult population has reached the 80% vaccinated rate.

Lumping all types of tertiary education together and claiming that online learning is ineffective is a ridiculous premise. In Japan, the vast majority of students in liberal arts programs are there for a four year break before starting their working life. University here is well known as ‘the summer of ones life.’

I suspect Kishida will be flying the Mission Accomplished banner just before the election and we’ll be back into a state of emergency by the end of the year.

We really need something similar to the Amber alert here in Japan. When children go missing it’s essential to get a message out to the general public as soon as possible. We shouldn’t have to wait until the evening news to hear about missing children.

If you don’t know what the substance is, you cannot call it a contaminant.

There is no way you could hit someone in broad daylight and not know what it was. This coward ran over someone and left him to die on the side of the road. He knew exactly what he did.

A lot of people got shouted down for suggesting that the delayed approval and slow rollout of vaccines was an attempt to allow domestic companies the chance to cash in. Well, this news makes it pretty obvious that they were right.

They have to extend the timeline because uptake of the injections is way lower than they projected.

Over a million people getting vaccinated each day and you want us to believe that the uptake has been low?

They’re clearly extended operation because there is a huge demand for vaccines.

I’m interested to know which schools closed for months? The longest delay in this area was about 5 weeks. The school board also decided to shorten summer vacation to make up for the delayed start. Is this loss of vacation time being investigated as a reason for depression? What about general stress related to living through a pandemic? Is this factor being looked at?

many believed to have felt lonely during school closures

How was this conclusion about the suicides reached?

has further shed light on how hospitals are under strain due to the explosive spread of COVID-19 in the country

Is it really fair to describe this situation as ‘under strain’?

We just had a baby a few weeks ago and the threat of COVID made it very stressful. We basically had to isolate ourselves for the last two months.

This is such a terrible tragedy. My heart goes out to the mother

What’s being described in this article is the collapse of the healthcare system in Tokyo.

Just last week Koike was asking people to avoid traveling home to pay homage to their ancestors. It’s no wonder that people are tired of listening to these hypocrites.

I’ve been waiting patiently to receive my vaccine voucher and haven’t even been able to make a reservation yet. Why are people living overseas able to jump the queue?

Only closing the beaches? How about parks, gyms, community centers and every other public space? If beaches are going to be closed I think we had better stop the radio taiso and gateball in the parks too. I wonder how the old folks would feel when their activities are limited as well?

This should be a double silver. It doesn’t seem right that the athletes can just decide to not complete the event so that they both get gold.

Because their respective events were completed several days ago, both judoka have already left Japan to return home, so it's unclear if they will face any actual consequences. A Tokyo Games spokesman said the pair can no longer access Tokyo 2020 facilities, but that was pretty much already true because of COVID rules requiring athletes to leave no fewer than two days after their competition.

Why was the above information left out of this story?? They’d already left Japan by the time officials had handed down their “punishment”. This kind of fake outrage and posturing does absolutely nothing to protect the people of Japan or stop future rule breakers.

The ex-wife would rather see the father of her children dead than to let them meet with him. She must have mental problems to be so heartless.