infection rate injapan is low. sometimes it s just in the scores of new cases a day across the country. inaudible four deaths were reported, so we have seen the delta variant wave, a huge wave in the summer come and go and now we are back to a very, very low level of infection which means life is back to normal injapan. the other reason is that the border controls over the last year and a to have been effective and have led to the much lower rates of not only infections but deaths in japan. japan has a population of around 126 million and there have been 18,000 deaths, which is orders of magnitude lower than europe or america. most people put that down to both the behaviour and the disciplined nature of japanese society but also the fact that borders have remained largely closed. :, ., borders have remained largely