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On March 16, Japan’s Broadcasting Association (NHK) reported that the country’s most popular texting and social media application, LINE, had been storing data from its 86 million Japanese users in mainland China since 20...

On March 20, officials publicly confirmed that overseas spectators will not be permitted to attend this summer’s rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The formal pronouncement was justified by Games organize...

Designed to ensure the Olympics and Paralympics can take place safely during the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo 2020 organizers published in early February a series of Playbooks that provide a framework of basic principles...

Japanese officials continue to announce support for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021, but enthusiasm among the Japanese public is waning, accelerated by the introduction of a new State of Emergency due to a...

Japan entered a State of Emergency (SoE) covering the Tokyo metropolitan area and three surrounding prefectures (Chiba, Saitama, and Kanagawa) on January 7. It was expanded a week later to a large portion of the main isl...

Seven months have now passed since the introduction of initial COVID-related travel restrictions. OSAC has updated its interactive map with the latest entry restrictions for U.S. travelers to the Asia-Pacific region, com...

Six months have passed since the first COVID-19 related travel restrictions were enacted. Since then, countries across the globe have created and revised entry and exit requirements numerous times in an effort to control...

After months of intense lockdowns and anxiety about continually rising case numbers, new COVID cases in Asia have mostly decreased and, in some countries, disappeared. This report notes these countries are focusing on gr...

While the West is now confronting COVID-19, the Asia-Pacific region faces two new issues: for some, dealing with the second wave of cases that travelers have imported from the West; and for others, carefully reopening th...

Nearly two months after the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, verified cases have surged and deaths have far surpassed the mortality rate for the early 2000s SARS outbreak. Efforts to contain the virus have been effective...