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No, but as their best customer and closest ally, they watch what we do very closely. My daughter lives in Tokyo, not far from what is their equivalent of Times Square.

Everybody (including her) who can work from home is working from home now. Commuter trains are running at about 40% capacity for everyone else.

Japan has very strict laws and restrictions on what the government is allowed to do as a result of their not so happy experience with fascism during World War II. They cannot require people to stay home or businesses not to operate. They can only plead.

18 posted on 04/15/2020 12:40:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)

“They cannot require people to stay home or businesses not to operate.”

They’re not supposed to be able to do that in America either, but we the sheeple have allowed it.

Maybe a move to Japan is in order. Somewhere rural. Real estate should be cheap in the Fukushima area.

69 posted on 04/16/2020 6:12:03 AM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)