State of emergency in Japan now applies nation-wide

On 16 April 2020, the Japanese government expanded the geographical scope of the state of emergency declared on 7 April under the Act on Special Measures to Respond to Novel Influenza (the “Act“). The state of emergency now applies throughout Japan until 6 May. This expansion in scope is intended to discourage residents of the seven prefectures to which the state of emergency originally applied from travelling to other prefectures where it did not.