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I am very well stocked with good beer just in case.

They can re-open the schools if they want on 6 April but my children won't be going back just yet.

Mass testing of anyone who wants it isn't necessary but those displaying any associated symptoms should be tested immediately without question. The government has made themselves look really bad over this, the blatant withholding of info and indecisiveness really fails to show leadership when people really need it. They will find it hard to come back from this.

How this government fails to use the tools and technology available, not only in this emergency but every other that Japan has, is beyond me. They really are displaying what a bunch or self serving, entitled muppets they really are.

However, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the government had not made any decision on bans.

They haven't decided much so far!

Koike has bigger balls than any of those dithering old farts in Kasumigaseki.

How are educational centres, workplaces and just citizens in general supposed to heed the governments warnings seriously when, form looking at photos such as this, it doesn't even appear they're taking the threat seriously themselves?

I love living in Tokyo but to me it became a much more enjoyable place to live when I swapped the train for a bicycle for my daily commute. I really hadn't realised how much that 20 minute train ride had stressed me out. Everything's great now.

Nice gesture but if you have to use public transport to get there it totally defeats the point.

So actually showing symptoms is not enough but apparently this is what you have to do to get tested in Japan.

No thanks.

Get this bunch of clowns out of parliament ffs.

No BusinessToday  07:53 am JST

Case in point, have you ever been on a relatively empty train with plenty of empty seats, and yet have someone sit right next to you.

Or at the gym, when there are 200 empty lockers, some cretin will come and start using the locker right next to yours.

I've found that in restaurants here too. Sometimes walk in to a relatively empty place and they've bunched everyone up on tables in 1 corner. If they try and direct me to a table like that I just ignore them and sit on 1 with some space.

The locker thing can happen as they just dish out keys in numerical order which is annoying.

The thing that annoys me about the panic buying in this country is the irresponsibility particularly shown by the supermarkets. Japan is a nation used to disasters so all supermarkets should have a plan they can instantly put in place to make it harder for individuals to buy too much of certain products. It's ridiculous.

The government here is so ridiculously slow implementing things and utilizing technology. A bunch of headless chickens.

It is bl00dy pointless telling people to stay home over the weekend when they go to work on the train and visit restaurants as usual for lunch during the week. Nothing will change.

During non-pandemic times, my son is constantly bringing germs home from kindergarten

If you have someone able to care for him during the day and he's still at a kindergarten then you don't have to send him back if or when it opens prematurely.

noriahojanenToday  09:04 am JST

Lockdown is the last resort. A lot of other things can be done before it. For example, compulsory checks on arrivals at Tokyo's two international airports should further be tightened.

This is especially true as I know someone who returned back from Europe in the last couple of days and they breezed straight through customs and immigration.

As long as people are still expected to ride trains and go to work how can anyone seriously expect them to not have a bit of nice time in the sun?

Bravo Italy, real measures into the pockets of the people rather than just pumping money into the banks and corporations that never trickles down to those in need.

So does anyone actually reliably know of anyone with symptoms who has gone to a facility and been denied a test or does it just fit the narrative?

When I first read this article I was wondering why the focus was so much on her not being able to physically resist him, I was thinking that was very cruel. However, having just done a quick search consensual incest between adults is not illegal in Japan.

Having grown up in a country where it is illegal between to consenting adults, i'd never actually really considered just how many countries do not have it criminalized and I was pretty surprised by the result.

I've had some nice camping experiences at campsites here but you need to choose carefully. Being squeezed in tightly to the groups around totally defeats what I consider the point of camping to be. I like a shaded area and I'm also a light sleeper so a quiet spot is preferable. I don't actually like camping in tents but the kids enjoy it, i'd happily turn up for the day do the bbq etc and go stay somewhere else.

We need a jock strap or sports box one, c'mon there has to be someone out there with enough time on their hands!

Well the ideal candidate to test this new law on would be the guy from this recent article.

Politician apologizes for ¥8.9 mil face mask price gouging

But I imagine as he's a local politician absolutely nothing will come of it.

It doesn't look like Naples at all, but it does resemble an Amalfi coast town a bit. I thought Naples city was a dump last time I visited so they might want to rethink that one!

Public pillory needs to be reintroduced for people like him.

This is not a time to be complaining about what others are doing to get their own house in order, it's time to just focus on getting your own house in order.

In a normal country surely the case would be thrown out if the police took a forced urine test. As I understand, you do have a right to refuse it in this country. They will certainly give you grief and make your incarceration hell while trying to get one but actually taking a forced one.....seriously?

Earlier in the day, Abe's Olympics minister, Seiko Hashimoto, said the 2020 Tokyo Games would go ahead as planned.

"Cancellation or delay of the Games would be unacceptable for the athletes," she said.

What she really means is ""Cancellation or delay of the Games would be unacceptable for the sponsors,"

That is absolutely despicable, no other words....

lesenfantToday  10:10 am JST

This is why they are making it so hard to be tested for the virus here.

Which is total BS as all they have said is you'll be tested if you develop what are the considered symptoms.