if the Japanese have the same hygiene standard practice then I think they will but between strangers Japan don’t have human contact much.
coming up is pollen season and every other person wear a mask in any given year, so this will slow the spreading (yes I know masks are not 100%, I said slow, not prevent), when you sit down to eat, they give you a hand wipe so your hands are clean before you eat. At every store and shop front now has a hand sanitiser for anyone to use.
when you pay are some places like Suikiya, you are asked to wave your receipt with a bar code at the machine, which then you out in cash and it gives you change. The staff don’t even touch the money.
every staff member at every shop are wearing face masks, every hotels (I stayed in 2), it has a sign asking all customers feeling un
ps I was there 4 days ago.
I am right now in Korea and they are even more on it than the Japanese. My hotel reception give you a face mask if you ask, there is a camera scanning all persons entering for high temperature, I see signs on what to do to prevent it everywhere, face masks are sold in vending machines and alcohol sanitiser at every shop front for anyone to use. Tannoys at station telling you the numbers to ring should you feel unwell in Korean, Japanese, Chinese and English. I would say 80% of the population is wearing a mask, even out in the open with no one else close by.
Lotte World Tower has closed its door linking to the underground entrance asking people to enter via the ground floor entrance instead, I guess they don’t want the air from the underground to get in.
I think if the west has an outbreak, it will blow up, we do not do half the stuff these Japanese or Koreans do, we think masks wearers are walking virus. There is a bigoted mindset to begin with and all the hugging and kissing faces when you meet a friend is going to spread it faster than you can say Hello.