{"id":40944,"date":"2022-01-22T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/i-cried-all-day-the-anguish-of-people-locked-out-of-japan-by-covid"},"modified":"2022-01-22T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:00:44","slug":"i-cried-all-day-the-anguish-of-people-locked-out-of-japan-by-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40944","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I cried all day\u2019: the anguish of people locked out of Japan by Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel restrictions have stranded almost 150,000 students, workers and others hoping to join relatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Late last year, Pablo Ortez quit his job, sold his belongings and prepared to join his wife in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, where she is studying for a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>But 72 hours before he was due to leave Argentina, he checked the Japanese foreign ministry website to find that the government had imposed a near-blanket travel ban to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/22\/i-cried-all-day-the-anguish-of-people-locked-out-of-japan-by-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel restrictions have stranded almost 150,000 students, workers and others hoping to join relativesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLate last year, Pablo Ortez quit his job, sold his belongings and prepared to join his wif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40944\/revisions\/40945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}