The Flickering Torch: The Olympics and Japan’s Covid-Impacted Immigration Policy
July 14, 2021

In this episode of the Immigration Conversation, Fragomen professionals Kenneth Lau, Adrian Goh, Jonathan Ying and Jeremy Chua discuss the challenges faced by Japan in relation to COVID-19 related restrictions that have exponentially increased while Japan has been in the international spotlight as the host of this year’s Olympic games. As this year’s Olympic games approach, we discuss how Japan has had to adapt during the pandemic in terms of the government’s current immigration policies.
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