{"id":4966,"date":"2022-03-23T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T07:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/coronavirus-covid-19-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:34:01","slug":"coronavirus-covid-19-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/coronavirus-covid-19-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus \/ COVID-19 in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there is no reason to panic, there is cause to be concerned about the spread of the Covid-19 \/ Coronavirus in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The general recommendations are that everyone takes the following precautions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid close contact with sick people.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.\n<ul>\n<li>Wash with soap and water to destroy the virus. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>While an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains 60%\u201395% alcohol can be used, it\u2019s best to reserve those resources for work locations where soap and water are not readily available.<\/li>\n<li>If your hands are visibly dirty, soap and water should be used rather than hand sanitizer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>As always, it is especially important to clean hands after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose.<\/li>\n<li>Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces. Regular household cleaners will destroy the virus.<\/li>\n<li>Wear a mask in public.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly, stay home when you are sick in order to avoid exposing others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>COVID-19 Policy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Relo Japan places a high priority on the health and safety of all our team members, our clients, and their employees moving to Japan. Due to the increasing number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, we have put in place the following measures to mitigate the health risks to all parties:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morethanrelo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Relo-Japan-Update_as-of-March-24-2023.pdf\">ReloJapan_Update_as_of_March24_2023<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>COVID-19: Resources and Recommendations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Relo Japan places a high priority on the health and safety of all our team members, our clients, and their employees moving to Japan. The below information is provided on a voluntary basis and we do not officially endorse any of the listed websites or medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morethanrelo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-COVID-19-Resources-and-Recommendations-v2.0.pdf\">Coronavirus COVID-19 Resources and Recommendations v2.0 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other Links<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>The Japan National Tourism Organization<\/strong>\u00a0is involved in a broad range of activities both domestically and worldwide, to encourage international tourists from all over the world to visit Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan.travel\/en\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.japan.travel\/en\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus (COVID-19) advisory information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tokyo City YouTube (official) <\/strong>provides the latest Information From Governor Koike to the People of Tokyo in English and Japanese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tokyo\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.youtube.com\/user\/tokyo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[spacer height=&#8221;05px&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Image: CDC\/Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is no reason to panic, there is cause to be concerned about the spread of the Covid-19 \/ Coronavir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,85],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hr-group","category-miscellaneous","tag-covid-19"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50026,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/50026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}