Kirk here with a belated report on the reversal of a problematic policy:

Kirk here with a belated report on the reversal of a problematic policy:

“The official said the passenger restriction policy is not intended to give priority to Japanese nationals and said that foreign residents of Japan can make reservations to re-enter the country.”

That’s good! Glad to see that the government has learned it’s lesson since excluding all non-Japanese in 2020 and now is distinguishing between between residents and non-residents. Unfortunately, though, it seems that the prime minister didn’t get the memo. In a public announcement I saw on TV he said something like “foreigners will not be allowed in,” an inexact way of speaking that encourages the tendency to lump all foreigners together into one category of people who, supposedly, don’t really need to be here and can easily “go home.”