So I'm here just to do an emergency livestream because I've read the news that has come across the wire, there's a link in the description.

所以我在這裡只是做一個緊急的現場直播，因為我已經看了電線上傳來的新聞，描述中有一個鏈接。

So you can see that I'm actually right now in Nagano and a Japanese, Yo con I traveled here yesterday driving 4.5 hours from Tokyo to film an episode here, never mind about that.

所以你可以看到，我現在實際上是在長野和一個日本人，Yo con我昨天從東京開車4.5小時來到這裡，在這裡拍攝一集，不要在意這個問題。

We have a big piece of news.

我們有一個大消息。

Japan is finally going to be reopening the borders.

日本終於要重新開放邊境了。

Um more importantly than that, a government official recently acknowledged, I think it might be the first time in a very long time that a government official acknowledged That there were 150,000 students waiting to enter the country with Visas.

更重要的是，一位政府官員最近承認，我想這可能是很長時間以來第一次有政府官員承認有15萬名學生在等待進入該國的簽證。

I think there was just so much pressure coming from abroad and from a lot of you who have been waiting to get into Japan for so long that the government finally initiated this kind of late and for the next five minutes or so, I want, I want to kind of talk about what is happening, what's going to be going on and this beautiful room that I'm in, I'm actually leaving in about 10 minutes.

我認為來自國外和你們很多人的壓力太大了，他們一直在等待進入日本，政府終於發起了這種遲到的行動，在接下來的5分鐘左右，我想，我想談談正在發生的事情，將要發生的事情，我所在的這個美麗的房間，實際上我在10分鐘左右就會離開。

So I have a lot of time here.

所以我在這裡有很多時間。

Something a beautiful futon, look how comfortable that is, it is as comfortable as it looks.

東西一個漂亮的被褥，看那是多麼舒適，它和它的外觀一樣舒適。

All right, let me sit down here.

好吧，讓我在這裡坐下來。

I hope that the wifi signal is a little bit better and we have a massive amount of snow here, which is, is absolutely beautiful.

我希望WIFI信號能好一點，我們這裡有大量的雪，這，是絕對的美麗。

Hopefully it does snow a little bit more because it adds a lot more drama to the episode.

希望它確實能多下一點雪，因為它為這一集增加了很多戲劇性。

Alright, so the plans are not official and we don't actually know what's going to be happening until thursday when Prime Minister Kishida announces how they're going to be rolling this out in the specific details.

好吧，所以計劃不是官方的，我們實際上不知道會發生什麼，直到星期四岸田首相宣佈他們將如何推出這一計劃的具體細節。

But you can assume that it's going to be students and business travelers, especially business travelers before the students because this is sort of what makes the country work.

但你可以假設，這將是學生和商務旅行者，特別是在學生之前的商務旅行者，因為這有點像使國家運作的原因。

What we've been seeing over the last couple of months, more students are losing interest in Japan.

在過去的幾個月裡，我們看到的是，更多的學生對日本失去了興趣。

They're actually going to neighboring countries like Taiwan like Korea, like even Hong kong some of them are even going to to Australia and other places.

他們實際上是去了周邊國家，如臺灣、韓國，甚至香港，其中一些人甚至去了澳洲和其他地方。

I don't even know what the situation is, but just a lot of westerners are getting very frustrated with, with um not just Westerners, people nearby here in um okay, well it looks like the signal is very weak.

我甚至不知道是什麼情況，只是很多西方人對，不只是西方人，附近的人在嗯好吧，看起來信號很弱，變得非常沮喪。

People nearby in these countries like Korea and Taiwan are very frustrated too because a lot of them had visas to come here Now from March, it's going to be opening I guess gradually.

在韓國和臺灣等這些國家附近的人也非常沮喪，因為他們中的很多人都有簽證來這裡，現在從3月開始，將逐漸開放，我想。

But one of the pieces of information that was really interested in this news article was that they're dropping the quarantine which was um 14 days.

但在這篇新聞報道中，真正感興趣的資訊之一是，他們將放棄14天的檢疫。

Then it was cut down the 10 days that it was raised back up to 14 days because the only crown and now they're lowering it back to seven days and then they're going to get rid of it completely in March for people that have been vaccinated three times and test negative for pcr tests on entry, which makes sense.

然後，它被削減了10天，它被提高到14天，因為唯一的皇冠，現在他們又把它降低到7天，然後他們將在3月完全擺脫它，對於那些已經接種了三次疫苗並且在入境時pcr測試陰性的人，這是有意義的。

I'm not sure where the government had all the money to pay for hotels for Thousands of travelers coming into Japan returnees, mostly Japanese citizens and people like me, residents who already have visas and lives here were allowed to return.

我不知道政府哪裡來的那麼多錢，為數以千計的進入日本的旅客支付酒店費用，回國人員，主要是日本公民和像我這樣的人，已經擁有簽證並生活在這裡的居民被允許返回。

But it wasn't always like that the road from 2022 now and they did start to ease the border a couple of a couple of months ago and they were going in that direction.

但是，現在從2022年開始的道路並不總是這樣，他們確實在幾個月前開始放寬邊界，他們正朝著這個方向前進。

But omicron threw a wrench in it.

但歐米伽羅給它帶來了麻煩。

So before everybody rejoices and you start making your travel plans, I want you to consider though, I want you to consider that this can also change again, we don't know if a new variants gonna be coming, we don't know what the situation is going to be like in two months and this has been the case from 2020 all the way down to 2022.

是以，在大家歡欣鼓舞，開始制定旅行計劃之前，我希望你們考慮一下，我希望你們考慮一下，這也可能再次發生變化，我們不知道新的變種是否會到來，我們不知道兩個月後情況會是怎樣，從2020年一直到2022年都是這樣。

So before you put your trips and you start planning for summer and fall, please wait for the details on this.

是以，在你把你的旅行和你開始計劃夏天和秋天之前，請等待這方面的細節。

And if you do want to book your ticket to get ahead of everybody else, make sure you get insurance because you might have to cancel those tickets and make sure they are refundable.

如果你確實想訂票以領先於其他人，請確保你買了保險，因為你可能不得不取消這些票，並確保它們是可以退的。

Um because you could lose a lot, but a lot of you have already lost a lot now, I don't think that Japan is gonna lose a lot of people are gonna lose a lot of interest in Japan because of this and probably about two or three weeks after they reopen.

嗯，因為你可能會失去很多，但現在你們很多人已經失去了很多，我不認為日本會失去很多，人們會因為這個而對日本失去很多興趣，可能在他們重新開放後的兩到三週。

It's almost all forgotten and um people go back to the mindset that they had before that this is an amazing country to travel around and see some amazing places.

這幾乎都被遺忘了，嗯，人們又回到了以前的心態，認為這是一個了不起的國家，可以到處旅行，看到一些了不起的地方。

Mr jimmy writes in here, I'm not holding my breath on booking a trip.

jimmy先生在這裡寫道，我不會對預訂旅行抱有希望。

Alright, don't, don't hold your breath anymore, go ahead and either you can, if you give up on it or you decide to come, I'm pretty sure that this summer is going to be hopping for Japan for Japan and there will be procedures in place now before I go before I leave and go to breakfast and then get back to this location shoot and then I had to, to film at nine a.m. which is an hour away, little bit over an hour away.

好了，別，別再憋著了，去吧，要麼你可以，如果你放棄了，或者你決定來，我很確定，這個夏天對日本來說會很有希望，現在會有一些程序，在我離開之前，去吃早餐，然後回到這個地方拍攝，然後我不得不，在上午九點拍攝，這有一個小時的路程，一個小時多一點的路程。

The reason why Japan had this travel ban was mostly political and it's, I talked with a lot of people here in Japan about this, most of the voters and it does make it, if you think about it, it does make logical sense to and and it, most of the voters are older, most of them don't have anything to gain by having foreign visitors coming into Japan, most people don't even care, but there is a significant part of the economy that does and when international businesses start to pull out of Japan because they can't get parts because there aren't enough flights coming into Japan creates a huge disaster.

日本實行這一旅行禁令的原因主要是政治原因，我在日本與很多人談過這個問題，大多數選民，如果你想一想，這確實有邏輯意義，而且，大多數選民都是老年人。他們中的大多數人對外國遊客進入日本沒有任何好處，大多數人甚至不關心，但有一個重要的經濟部分是這樣的，當國際企業開始從日本撤出，因為他們無法獲得零部件，因為沒有足夠的班機進入日本，這將造成巨大的災難。

Um then the government starts to listen but I think they listened more to the voters who are like look if you start bringing in piles of people into Japan we're going to be scared and scared, voters will not vote for that party and the politicians and leaders will think we want to appease those voters before anybody else.

嗯，然後政府開始聽從，但我認為他們更多的是聽從選民的意見，他們認為如果你開始把成堆的人帶入日本，我們會感到害怕和恐懼，選民不會投票給那個政黨，政治家和領導人會認為我們要先安撫這些選民。

Because it wasn't certainly based on science 14 day quarantine made no sense in omicron because it had a 23 day, I don't know incubation period I guess you can call it and like it's over by the time a week is done for a lot of people.

因為它不一定是基於科學的，14天的隔離在歐米茄沒有意義，因為它有23天的潛伏期，我不知道，我想你可以稱之為潛伏期，就像很多人在一週內完成的時候，它已經結束。

So it didn't make scientific sense to continue the way they were going.

是以，繼續走他們的路沒有科學意義。

And in fact this omicron is already raging throughout Japan right now.

而事實上，現在這個歐米茄已經在整個日本肆虐。

In fact it's um maybe a tougher place right now than the United States because the U.

事實上，它是嗯，也許現在是一個比美國更艱難的地方，因為美國。

S.

S.

State Department issued a travel warning Japan based on the omicron situation here.

國務院根據這裡的歐米茄情況，對日本發出了旅行警告。

So I guess it doesn't really make any sense to keep the borders closed and try to protect a situation that is already out of control.

所以我想，繼續關閉邊界並試圖保護一個已經失控的局面，其實並沒有任何意義。

No.

沒有。

Yeah absolutely does not.

是的，絕對不是。

Um it's it's gonna take a couple more weeks before the borders do open again procedures.

在邊境再次開放之前，還需要幾個星期的時間。

It's not just it's not just because of the uh you know desire and and just giving up on this on this um um protectionism way of life.

這不僅僅是它不只是因為呃你知道的慾望和和只是放棄這個對這個嗯嗯保護主義的生活方式。

It just takes a long time for Japanese procedures to, to initiate because even this third shot booster vaccine rollout takes forever to get the papers rolling and everything needs to be signed and hung code.

只是日本的程序需要很長時間才能啟動，因為即使是這種第三針加強型疫苗的推廣也需要永遠的文件滾動，一切都需要簽署和懸掛代碼。

And despite this being the Rwa era it still takes a ridiculous amount of time.

儘管現在是Rwa時代，它仍然需要大量的時間。

Nothing is really digital in Japan, it's still all paper based.

在日本，沒有什麼是真正的數字，仍然都是基於紙張。

You can see that in the way I got my booster shot already.

你可以從我已經打了加強針的方式中看到這一點。

It requires at least half a dozen forms to fill out which is a great reduction compared to what it used to be a long time ago like and when I say a long time ago I'm like two years ago.

它至少需要填寫半打表格，與很久以前相比，這是一個很大的減少，就像我說的很久以前，我是說兩年前。

So I'm just glad I didn't have to fax in my application that would have been worse.

所以我很高興我不用傳真我的申請，那會更糟。

So essentially the entry ban, we can see that it's going to be over and it is a time to rejoice.

是以，從本質上講，入境禁令，我們可以看到它將會結束，這是一個值得歡欣鼓舞的時刻。

A lot of you have been asking me when is Japan going to be opening up and this is a solid date of an opening but it's not a full opening.

很多人一直在問我，日本什麼時候會開放，這是一個可靠的開放日期，但不是全面開放。

I don't think tourism will, will start up at least until the, this is a guess.

我不認為旅遊業會，至少會在，這是一個猜測之前啟動。

Okay until like the end of april may earliest.

好的，直到像4月底，可能最早。

Alright, just because it takes that long for things to get started.

好吧，只是因為事情需要那麼長時間才能開始。

Maybe they want to get it started.

也許他們想讓它開始。

It takes this long to get to get the ball rolling.

要花這麼長的時間才能讓球滾動起來。

So once the decision is made, it probably takes two months before it actually is initiated.

是以，一旦做出決定，可能需要兩個月時間才能真正啟動。

Um if you have any comments, please leave them down in the question.

嗯，如果你有什麼意見，請在問題下面留言。

I don't mind criticism, go ahead, criticize me all you want, but I think that it's important for people, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people that are planning the trips to come here, trying to plan their future to live here.

我不介意責備，儘管責備我吧，但我認為這對人們來說很重要，成千上萬的人，成千上萬的人，成千上萬的人正在計劃來這裡的旅行，試圖計劃他們的未來，在這裡生活。

I need to know what's going on from inside here in Japan.

我需要知道在日本這裡發生了什麼事。

There's lots of new sources.

有很多新的來源。

I put a link in the description to the one here.

我在描述中放了一個鏈接到這裡。

250,000 people with visas have been waiting to enter Japan.

25萬名持有簽證的人一直在等待進入日本。

A government official acknowledged this after and and and trading rights in here.

一位政府官員在和和在這裡的交易權後承認了這一點。

I believe it when I see it, that's and and this is the problem because a lot of people are somewhat apprehensive and rightfully so after months and months, if not years of waiting and waiting and waiting, um we'll believe it when we see it, the details are coming on thursday according to the news article and then once we get the details and then we'll see more about the direction, but once again it's a political decision and if you have been voicing your opinion on twitter on social media telling business leaders just recently.

當我看到它時，我相信它，這就是和，這就是問題所在，因為很多人有些忐忑不安，在經過幾個月和幾個月，甚至幾年的等待和等待之後，理所當然，嗯，當我們看到它時，我們會相信它，根據新聞報道，細節將在週四到來，然後一旦我們得到細節，然後我們會看到更多的方向，但再次這是一個政治決定，如果你最近剛剛在社交媒體的微博上發表意見告訴商業領袖。

Business leaders from, from western countries, I just said that it's just too draconian, this is too rough, It's hurting our businesses and some places have actually pulled out of Japan then it's not about the voters, it's about the economy and that is the voters.

來自西方國家的商業領袖，我只是說，這太苛刻了，這太粗暴了，它正在傷害我們的企業，一些地方實際上已經撤出了日本，那麼這不是關於選民，而是關於經濟，這就是選民。

It's the economy stupid.

這是經濟問題，很愚蠢。

So we'll see when we believe it.

是以，我們將看到當我們相信它。

But the details coming thursday, I hope that it is in the details in the blueprints include international tourism.

但週四即將到來的細節，我希望它在藍圖中的細節包括國際旅遊。

I'm not sure.

我不確定。

I don't know if he's going to be talking about that, but tourism has opened up for neighboring countries already.

我不知道他是否會談論這個問題，但旅遊業已經為鄰國開放了。

So I think it's going to be really rough for Japan not to have a blueprint that includes opening it up to international tourism even if they have quotas in the beginning, whatever they need to have some sort of blueprint so people can also plan their trips because I hope, my hope is that you did not give up on Japan and you're still interested in it because um, there's still a lot of adventure and a lot of things to see and do here in this amazing country and I hope that uh, it's still on your itinerary and if it's not, I can understand too um, john would you go to Kyoto to do coverage and how tourism has affected the city and local businesses.

所以我認為，如果日本沒有一個包括向國際旅遊開放的藍圖，那將是非常艱難的，即使他們一開始有配額，但不管怎樣，他們需要有某種藍圖，這樣人們也可以計劃他們的旅行，因為我希望，我希望你沒有放棄日本，你仍然對它感興趣，因為嗯。在這個神奇的國家，仍然有很多冒險和很多事情可以看，可以做，我希望它仍然在你的行程中，如果不是，我也可以理解，嗯，約翰你會去京都做報道，以及旅遊業對城市和當地企業的影響。

I'm not really a big fan of Kyoto.

我並不太喜歡京都。

Um, I don't like that.

嗯，我不喜歡這樣。

I'm not a, I'm not a Kyoto person, but you know, I'll go there.

我不是一個，我不是一個京都人，但你知道，我會去那裡。

I'll do it.

我會做的。

I don't, you know, we'll see what's going on down there.

我不知道，你知道，我們將看看下面發生了什麼。

I'm a fan of the countryside.

我是農村的粉絲。

I'm not a fan of the um, um, um, um, you know, Kyoto hasn't has, I think they went bankrupt.

我不喜歡嗯，嗯，嗯，你知道，京都還沒有，我想他們破產了。

Somebody said Tony P thank you.

有人說，託尼-P謝謝你。

Except that they can't get pandemic under control in Japan.

除了他們不能在日本控制住大流行病。

Opening up will only spread it more.

開放只會使其更加擴散。

I don't think so.

我不這麼認為。

I don't think it's going to spread it more.

我不認為這將會使它更加擴散。

I think it is, it is what it is.

我認為是這樣的，它就是這樣的。

It's going up and it's going down and in the United States, the numbers are going down in England.

它在上升，也在下降，在美國，英國的數字在下降。

Everything, all the numbers are going down by March optimistically.

一切，所有的數字都在3月前樂觀地下降。

Um, I believe that opening it up to other countries is going to be, it's going to be based on the situation of the country's that are coming into Japan.

嗯，我相信向其他國家開放將是，這將是基於進入日本的國家的情況。

For example, if the United States has it under control, they're probably going to open up tourism to Japan because Japan has a very safe and conservative approach to it.

例如，如果美國把它控制住了，他們可能會開放對日本的旅遊，因為日本對它有非常安全和保守的態度。

It's just the way it is.

這就是事實。

So um, it's already endemic.

所以，嗯，這已經是地方性的了。

So yeah, it is what it is just in case rates in here.

所以，是的，它是什麼，只是為了防止這裡的利率。

I wouldn't call it endemic yet.

我還不會說它是流行病。

We just don't know.

我們只是不知道。

But it looks like it is going in that directions Numbers go up and down JK Adventures regardless of restrictions.

但看起來它正朝著那個方向發展，數字上下的JK Adventures，不受任何限制。

That's exactly right.

這是完全正確的。

Um, this virus has no passport doesn't matter and the policies were weird.

嗯，這種病毒沒有護照並不重要，政策也很奇怪。

So people could come in, citizens and residents could come in, but they couldn't, My breakfast is here one second cuz I held his name.

所以人們可以進來，公民和居民可以進來，但他們不能，我的早餐在這裡一秒鐘，因為我持有他的名字。

I said, yeah, okay, let's give us a I Breakfast.

我說，是的，好的，讓我們給我們一個I早餐。

All right.

好的。

I gotta go guys leave a comment down below.

我得走了，各位請在下面留言。

But just keep in mind that the details are coming on Thursday and I'll do another live stream in a couple of days.

但請記住，細節將在週四到來，我將在幾天後做另一次直播。

I'm headed to the Monkey Park.

我正準備去猴子公園。

If you are a member or an insider, I'm gonna be doing a special live stream for you in a couple of hours.

如果你是會員或內部人士，我將在幾個小時內為你做一個特別的直播。

It's just 99 cents.

這只是99美分。

See you then.

到時見。