As suspicions mounted Friday in Yokohama that a new type of flu had finally landed in Japan, schools began drafting worst-case scenarios and measures to prevent its spread.
Nihon University, which has a student body of about 80,000 spread across campuses from Tokyo, Kanagawa and Chiba to Fukushima and Shizuoka prefectures, has instructed teachers and students to refrain from travel to Mexico and other places where the new swine-avian-human flu has been detected.
"If he or she must make the trip, we will ban the person from coming to school for seven days after returning to Japan," a university official said.