Jbigs comments

If there is 1 meter of snow on your neighbours garage, they probably need to clear that, then clear it again when it hits the ground.

Was in Tokyo for the day today, everywhere is packed as usual, cafes shoulder to shoulder and obviously no masks because obviously you cannot eat or drink with a mask on. Subway packed, obviously. People from Tokyo do not care about the virus.

The reason the oldies need to do it is because the 'kids' move from the snowy areas to the big cities away from snow. Sometimes you notice they leave the snow clearing until Sunday when the kids (often adults) come back home to help out.

"I feel sorry for the people in Sydney's northern suburbs who live by the beach"

Umm ok?

This is record breaking snowfall. As in, the most snow ever recorded in Yuzawa, Niigata (within a 24 hour period).

This is kinda silly. Even if the guest cancels, the government will pay 50% to the hotel.

So... when the guest asks, what will the new price be now the campaign is cancelled. The hotel will reply, cancel now, re-book with this 50% discount code. No?

How dare they spend our tax money!

Do the luxury gardening gloves come with it

Try living 1 day without Chinese products. You will be nude and will be back to newspapers.

What about Go Eat!?

Flew with them once a few years ago. When the plane landed, staff walked down the centre isle spaying some kind of chemical which seemed like fly spray, the whole cabin fogged up and people were coughing and covering their faces.

I was on a connecting flight, they then did the same again when we landed at the second destination.

When I tried to write a review on an independent flight review website. They rejected my review because they did not believe me. I wish I had read a review like this before booking my flight.

Good work from Australians, not a bad country to be stuck for a year or two!

As someone who has a business in tourism in Japan, I have decided to remain closed. Luckily for me I have enough savings to survive for now. I do appreciate that the Go To campaign could be the difference between bankruptcy or survival of my neighbours business who have loans to pay. For those that do not depend on tourism it may seem like a crazy idea. Please think about the beautiful places you have visited in Japan that may not survive. They need help.

Temperature checks are of course important, but let's not forget that asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic people don't have a fever but are nevertheless infectious.

I had Covid and only had a temperature for 1 day. It makes you realise they are quite useless. I highly doubt anyone with a fever is getting out of bed, let alone going to a sporting event.

What are we going to talk about now... oh yeah, Trump.

The go to campaign is the real factor for this rise in numbers. A campaign by the way meant only to feed the corporeal dinosaurs such as JTB, JAL, Prince group, Dentsu and others.

But all small independent accommodations can also use the Go To campaign subsidies the same as the big travel companies.

I think in the long run nobody wants to see more abandoned ghost towns around Japan. This is the reality if some of these places go without visitors for much longer. Those who are at risk, such as elderly ryokan operators can choose to close if they feel vulnerable.

A big issue is for those who invested heavily in their accommodation for Olympic year. Without visitors they will go bankrupt, with visitors there is a risk but what other option is there?

Please stop buying Nestle. Nestle just recently were sued for killing tonnes of fish in French river due to pollution spill. Support smaller companies who use real ingredients.

I wonder how popular these quarantine hotels will be for regular guests in the future?

All elections are. She got re-elected on how popular her policies and actions have been.

She did a great job of offering wage subsidies right up the election. Supporting that of 470,000 jobs.

Really wish the best for NZ, a great place.

Would have voted ACT myself, the only one making sense.

It's a popularity contest, congrats 'Aunty Jacinda' had it in the bag, let's keep the country closed to outsiders forever!

Some of these tourist destination are on the verge of bankruptcy, how much tax payer money will be needed to bail out entire towns?

Better to support them now while they are still running and keep them going.

Travel with precaution. Those who are afraid of Covid or have savings can easily close their business and re-open at a later date when they feel safe.

New Zealanders still living in true fear of Covid. There is still strong belief that she is doing the right thing by shutting down the country.

NZers watch too much tv and follow click bait news to see mass graves in Brazil and India, when the reality in these countries, people are happy and mostly going about normal life (I live in one of these places).

There is a fear in NZ that their small nation in the middle of nowhere will become a mass grave, it's just not true.

There are entire towns whose economy rely on tourism from Tokyo. If the local councils or businesses in these tourist towns are worried about Covid-19 from visitors, they can easily close their doors until there is a vaccine. Those who would like to open can profit from the campaign, maybe survive bankruptcy.

Those who buy Meat/dairy product openly support the destruction of forest around the world. You only need to look at New Zealand as a prime example. Those 'beautiful' green rolling hills used to be native forest before the Europeans arrived. Very sad and nobody seems to care as long as they can eat rotting flesh, their god given right.

The needless business travel should be the first to stop. Had a guy travel across the country to suggest I become a reseller for his product. I could have just told him no over the phone/skype/zoom.

Far less people will die this year in Japan thanks to Covid. The elderly especially taking much more care.

"Some hotels increase prices during the peak season and it's annoying but it's how they stay afloat to counter the quieter times during the year without letting staff go (and be sure that's it's not the hotel booking platform you're using that is doing that based on cookies and not the hotel itself).

Either way the hotel needs to paying 12% minimum of the total to the booking website as a fee. I would be very surprised if the hotel can not do at least 10% discount on the price you see on these booking websites, if anyone takes the time to check the actual hotel website.

should I leave for any reason, I'd be banned from returning to all that. Please explain to me why that is.

People are completely against domestic travel because of the virus, but are outraged when they can't head off on a holiday overseas because of the virus. Insanity.

I finally received my Japanese visa this year after years of applying, however I accept responsibility for leaving and understand why I am not allowed back. I could have stayed but chose not to.

"2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were stored in a warehouse for six years without safety measures" - Aljazeera

Crazy considering there have been previous bombings in the area.