The difficulty with Japan is that it's a country where two things are equally possible: —a major cover-up by the people in authority —everyday citizens carefully following fairly elaborate public health advice As an outsider here, it's very difficult to tell which predominates
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The main visible impact in Japan from a visitor's perspective is that some public spaces are much less crowded than normal, more people wear masks than usual, and there is hand sanitizer put out in front of places like grocery stores. But no sense of extreme measures at all.
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Again, this is a country where you can say "we need you to separate your recycling into 94 different categories. Set out your used pencil erasers on alternate Tuesdays from 7:10-7:14 AM" and they will just do it. But then someone will cough on you in the bus. Really hard to tell.
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They are not sharing them. All the temples I’ve been too have them closed off with signs stating they’re unavailable for preventative measures and many have hand sanitizer stations by them.
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Where are you? I haven't seen this at a single Kyoto shrine, but there's nearly 2000 of them...
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