Japan has declared a state of national emergency covering Tokyo, Osaka, and five other prefectures close to them. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special/coronavirus/tokyo/ … orhttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/07/national/abe-officially-declares-state-of-emergency-over-covid-19-in-seven-prefectures-including-tokyo-and-osaka …
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At present this explicitly does not include a "lockdown such as we have seen in countries abroad." I would recommend you not make plans which are contingent on that state of affairs continuing.
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"What's the biggest change we're likely to see?" Every public and private org in Japan will have a conversation tomorrow, and in lamentably many cases for *the first time* tomorrow, on what their coronavirus strategy should be. Some will act; some will start planning to act.
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"Every" is a bit of an overstatement for effect here, but as of tomorrow it's hard to imagine e.g. a large corporation or city not having several hundred people working on this issue. That is, unfortunately, not terribly hard to imagine as of last week or even this morning.
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Working closely together in a big conference room, one assumes!
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