Japan’s Grand Re-Opening: A Velvet-Rope Welcome to the Post-COVID World
Japan Opens Its Doors—Slightly—To the Rest of Us: A Dispatch from the Land of Polite Chaos By Our Tokyo Correspondent, who has finally emerged from a two-year quarantine haze smelling faintly of vending-machine coffee They say history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In Japan’s case it repeated itself as paperwork: mountains of…