Masks stay put in Japan as 3-year request to wear them ends
LA TimesPeople with masks cross an intersection near Tokyo Station in Tokyo on Monday after the Japanese government dropped its mask wearing request for the first time in three years. Japan on Monday dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years, but hardly anything changed in the country that has had an extremely high regard for their effectiveness at anti-virus protection. During a televised budget committee meeting at parliament, some lawmakers still wore masks, though Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasn’t wearing one when he arrived at his office Monday. Fans who gathered outside the Tokyo Dome hours before Monday’s World Baseball Classic games between Australia and Czech Republic and between China and South Korea also had on masks.
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