John Daub thinks Japan’s position in 2020 resembles where the country was following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.
“It was the same situation after March 11, with no tourism and a lot of uncertainty,” he tells The Japan Times, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the nation. “A lot of my friends left in March — maybe now they wished they stayed.”
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