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Masking in Japan in 2023
I went to Japan over the holidays, where I felt at times like I’d been thrust back into the bowels of 2020, a place I feel no one should ever want to go, but I admit that I should not have been as surprised as I was.
Japan has tighter requirements for entry for foreigners than many other countries in Asia. The government maintained a restrictive Visa requirement into October 2022. This is gone now, but for entry in 2023, one must still show either proof of “full vaccination,” which includes at least one booster (three shots), or a PCR test within 72 hours of one’s arrival in the country.