Days of keeping a distance from people, spending hours in a small room on a chair - after two years of self-isolation, I decided to do a few more months of it.
From late March, as Covid-19 case numbers fell, Japan began to relax its social curbs and border controls. But with time seemingly up and running again also came the sense that it was running out.
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