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A Crisis of Japanese Studies: How Japan’s Border Restrictions Have Affected Research in the Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Tomoyuki Sasaki
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Abstract

How did Japan’s border restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affect Japanese studies? To answer this question, this essay discusses the results of a survey conducted in August 2022.

Keywords

PandemicBorder ControlTravel RestrictionsJapanese Studies
Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 17 , October 2022 , e5
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2022

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1 I would like to thank all the people who participated in this survey and who helped to distribute it to potential respondents. This survey has been featured in several media outlets. The Japan Times demonstrated interest in this survey at a fairly early stage and quickly published an article that featured it on August 30. The Washington Post also published an article on Japan’s border restrictions, in which this survey was mentioned, on September 16. I have also been interviewed by NHK in late September, and an article is expected to come out soon.

2 Initially, I misidentified March 19 as the date that all the countries were added to the list of the countries from which entry to Japan was banned. This was my mistake, but in the spirit of full transparency I maintained this original date in the discussion of the survey results.