Originally Posted by
musehead
Encourage use of N95 (or better) masks where they may come into contact with people. Staying in a normal hotel with judicious mask use should be fine too.
Isolation isn't really an issue in Europe anymore, it doesn't need to be in Japan either.
Anything that isn't a strictly enforced rule is basically useless, because many Westerners can't be trusted to care about anyone other than themselves. Case in point, I've taken 2 flights recently where incessant coughing came from individuals that were decidedly European or North American, and of course they basically did not mask for the duration of the flight. This was on SQ.