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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Level
- Foreign government
- Authority
- Act on Special Measures, arts. 31-4 and 32
- Issued
- 2021-04-23 Apr. 23, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-04-25 (third); 2021-07-12 (fourth, Tokyo) (read as 2021-04-25)
- End
- 2021-09-30 (all emergency and quasi-emergency measures lifted) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 25, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationBusiness closureGathering capCurfew and hoursAlcohol and bars
- Addressees
- prefectural governors
- restaurants and bars (alcohol service suspended)
- large venues
- Functions reached
- CB
- SC
- TR
- MK (Tokyo Olympics held without spectators)
- Collection
- Foreign governments' orders (context) FOR
Operative words
Not read; described in the U.S. Embassy Tokyo Health Alert of July 9, 2021.
Enforcement
Act on Special Measures (administrative fines)
Notes
Japan spent the whole third quarter of 2021 under emergency or quasi-emergency measures.
Retrieval noteThe exhibit is dated July 9, 2021 although date_issued records the third declaration of Apr. 23, 2021; the Japanese government texts were not located (corona.go.jp is offline and the Kantei English index lists no April or July 2021 declaration page), so the grade stays verified_secondary. the Wayback Machine returned empty bodies for the alert and the Prime Minister's Office pages on Sept. 26, 2026.