Shaun Dyer comments

This is all smoke and mirrors. The two-faced Government of Japan is pretending to pull down the main restricton to letting legal tax-paying residents to return to their homes, families and workplaces, while setting up new conditions that are practically impossible to meet. Contrary to the lies that the Minister of Foreign Affairs put forward in his press conference on July 21, this is the only supposedly democratic nation in the G20, the EU and APEC that is taking these vindictive discriminatory policies. Obviously the Government of Japan hates the fact that there are foreign residents living here. I for one, after living here for 36 years, after contributing so much to the Japanese company where I work, am planning to pull up all my roots and move back to my country of birth. And I tell you what, I won't be the last.