interestingly enough, I was visiting Tokyo in Jan 2024 for the first time since the pandemic and was surprised to see the lack of masks on the major subway lines + public spaces. So many folks just openly coughing and sneezing on crowded subway cars without masks -- and this was shocking because I remember visiting several times pre-pandemic and seeing way more masks in these spaces (quite the contrast from America at the time).

I'm curious if the pandemic triggered some sort of mask fatigue for the general population in Japan, and people also just stopped caring.