Japan announced on Monday that it will ban all new foreign entries for at least one month in an effort to prevent the omicron variant from spreading domestically.
Japan Times contributor and cross-cultural communications consultant Rochelle Kopp joins to discuss the changes at Japan's border and how they are affecting the people who hope to call Japan home.
Read more:
- Japan to bar all new foreign visitors as omicron fears grow (Ryusei Takahashi)
- Scores hoping to enter Japan in limbo — again — after latest entry ban (Jesse Johnson and Ryusei Takahashi)
- Omicron is the price we pay for vaccine inequality (Brad Glosserman)
- Japan confirms first case of omicron coronavirus variant (Ryusei Takahashi)
- Japan to ban all foreign travelers from 10 African countries amid omicron outbreak (Ryusei Takahashi)
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