Kirk here. Earlier today I posted about new restrictions related to the discovery of Omicron variant. After I posted, RKK ran a news segment about the impact on agriculture in Kumamoto. The prefecture depends on foreign “trainees” for agricultural labor. Here’s the Japanese YouTube url for the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSKcQmNSVE

And here’s the RKK page:

https://rkk.jp/news/index.php?id=NS003202111301715000111