U.S. State Department: Americans Should Avoid Traveling To Japan

Above, the Five-Storied Pagoda of Sensoji. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Two months before the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the U.S. State Department has issued a travel advisory telling citizens that it is not advisable to travel to Japan.

Bloomberg reported:

The U.S. said Americans should avoid traveling to Japan, with the country under a state of emergency over a widening Covid-19 outbreak that has sown doubts about Tokyo’s plans to host the Olympics in less than two months.

The State Department raised its travel advisory to level four on Monday, putting Japan in a category with a broad swath of nations from Latin America to Europe that Americans are urged to avoid due to coronavirus concerns. The action is a fresh blow to a country struggling to convince its own public and the international community that it’s ready to host the Summer Olympics beginning on July 23, following their delay in 2020.

In many ways, this travel advisory is hilarious as foreign travel to Japan, except in certain cases and situations, is already not allowed. So what's the point?

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