[mszkoda]

Are all the schools in Japan controlled or funded in some way by the government? I'm guessing this is an "ask" to private school and the public schools have it as a direct order.

[Waterluvian]

In many parts of the world, the government still has regulatory power over private schools in many ways. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan can pretty much shut down all schools for health emergency reasons.

[buckminster]

In most parts of the world the government has authority over everything once they declare an emergency.