In May 2010, I was finally able to return to Japan temporarily and was starting to feel excited.

May 18, 2022

When entering Japan,

(1) Proof of a negative test result within 72 hours
(2) Airport PCR Testing

If I have to go through an airport inspection, I won't be able to make my connecting flight to the other region. If I test positive here, I'll have to think of Job, who was tested by God, and give up.

However, it seems likely that (2) will be abolished soon.

Seongju, the United States, Australia, and for some reason Thailand are the only countries that will be accepting tourists on a trial basis, but only in group tours .

However, there is no way that they can say, "If you test positive, you must be quarantined for three days." There is no way that foreign tourists can be tested without being tested, but Japanese people returning to Japan should be tested .

And Inazo .

Hoping that airport inspections would be abolished, I quickly booked a flight for the end of June.

It's a ticket to the outside world. How long I've waited for these two and a half years as a model prisoner. Parole is just around the corner at Abashiri Prison in Seongju!

So when I got to the airport,

"I've just been released from prison. If you're waiting for me, could you tie a yellow handkerchief in the window?"

I'll send a postcard to my wife lol

On the other hand, if the procedures become easier, people from Seongju who have been waiting to come to Japan will come in droves .

If you are planning to return to Japan around the Obon holidays after the House of Councillors election, you may be in trouble if you haven't booked your tickets yet.

After all, Japan is now a "cheap country," so it's the best country for Seongju residents to travel abroad .

Although I am returning to Japan to avoid the busy season, Inazo will be taking a two-week break in early July...

However, if airport PCR tests are not abolished, or if, even more unlikely, a negative test result cannot be obtained (i.e., a positive result), parole will be postponed.

...That was in 1944.

A baseless rumor spread among the Jews in the camp that the war would end by Christmas .

However, the war continued. There is an episode in "Night and Fog" in which many hopeful Jews fell victim to the war .

So don't get your hopes up. Frankl also said that those who were optimistic and patient were the ones who survived.

But... what if the yellow handkerchief isn't tied? (Ahhh)

My heart might stop

·local

A negative test certificate from 72 hours ago. The Japanese Association charges $135 ( $280 for the quickest), but a local hospital charges just $88, and it's quicker too.

I looked it up and it was $178 at a certain Japanese hospital. Seriously ripped off, right? Even though it's the same thing. Isn't the hospitality different when it comes to Japanese doctors?

Inazo, who has been working locally for nine years , basically does everything locally.

The medical system in Seongju is on par with Japan's, or maybe even better, except that they don't speak Japanese (even if they're quacks, they're doctors, so they'll understand you even if you speak broken Japanese) .

The receptionist is unfriendly in both basic and applied terms, but perhaps because Japanese people are a rare breed, the doctors are strangely friendly and start talking about trips to Kyushu and Japanese anime right away.

My impression is that they don't use strong medicines or overdose patients like in Japan, but rather take their time with treatment.

Japan has the highest number of hospital beds per capita in the world, and at first glance, it appears to have a robust medical system, but...

This is because there are an excess of beds in psychiatric hospitals and patients are bedridden, which has led to a collapse of the medical system even though there are few cases of coronavirus infection.

I'm going to talk about politics again, so I'll stop here.