So confused about this. ANA and JAL are still going to be flying planes to honor existing reservations? Won’t they be virtually empty? https://t.co/XW7AP6tepJ

From people who are better in the know (I have not stepped on a plane since the start of the pandemic) https://t.co/GyMhw2QaVs

Lot of empty planes flying right now https://t.co/a1t8S4qQ02

Doesn’t seem like it. Just looked on https://t.co/8iGJHcQfPf and the next date you can make a new reservation is Jan 28. https://t.co/7AQjC2rAtq https://t.co/BEntabS4Gu

Clarifying.. United may still be flying NYC-Tokyo, but seems not to be accepting new reservations till Jan 28.

That’s the other thing! I’ve been saving up vacation days to eventually fly back, but I also need to be saving up 💴💴💴 https://t.co/rd6DNjVBUh https://t.co/WbFhuYVwXD

Is this already happening? https://t.co/y9pjZy7ZzH

Because when life gives you lemons it then gives you more lemons, we’d already given up going back to Japan this year on account of our injured pup, who just had orthopedic surgery.. still, wow. My heart hurts for everyone who is still stranded/can’t see family etc

.@motokorich and @hikarimaehida on Japan as a “a sobering case study of the human and economic cost of closed borders” https://t.co/28jLfxtr88

Wow. I guess the Nagoya-Detroit Toyota express is still operating though. (Nagoya/Chubu services Toyota HQ.) https://t.co/o52G5NXKtd

Um, OK.. so the Japanese government just reversed everything in the above thread, saying that asking airlines to halt new reservations “invited chaos.” Japanese nationals/residents can again book inbound flights after all. (Border is still closed to foreign visitors tho.) https://t.co/OOgdohplzu

..according to Asahi.

Or did they? My husband who has been complaining about this all day is determined not to sleep until he knows for sure

PM Kishida not very clear in this clip but he says he now ordered the Transport Ministry to consider the plight of Japanese nationals overseas https://t.co/jEbCo8UFnM

What pops up first when you search on Twitter for “Kishida.” Oh dear. https://t.co/B6tJKp4i41