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Japan's first domestic case of infection was confirmed in Kobe in a male high school student without a history of traveling abroad.

A fourth case was confirmed in a student who had returned from a school trip to Canada.

The first three cases of H1N1 in Japan were confirmed in patients who had spent time in Oakville, Canada and returned via Detroit.

Health officials check airline passengers before allowing disembarkation of an international flight back to Japan May 8 He turned out to have the Soviet strain of influenza A.

Another suspected case was announced by Health, Labour, and Welfare Minister in a 17-year-old male Yokohama high school student, who had tested positive for influenza A the day earlier.

At Narita, a Japanese woman tested positive for influenza A on a flight from LA (but was found to be infected with the Hong Kong strain of influenza A, not with H1N1).

At Narita Airport, in-flight quarantine inspection was initiated to check the health of passengers arriving from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The Japanese government installed a basic policy to block the virus at borders.

Following the World Health Organization's raising the pandemic alert level to Phase 4 (April 27 UTC), Japan's Health, Labour, and Welfare Minister, Yoichi Masuzoe, declared the outbreak of a new influenza strain in Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

The Japanese farm ministry said that it would not ask for restrictions on pork imports because pork was unlikely to be contaminated with the virus, and any virus would be killed in the cooking process anyway.

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Japanese Agriculture Minister Shigeru Ishiba appeared on TV to reassure consumers regarding the safety of pork. In April, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries instructed animal quarantine offices across the country to examine any live pigs being brought into the country to double-check for infection by the H1N1 strain of influenza. The pandemic ended in August 2010 when the World Health Organization announced that worldwide influenza infection number were back to the seasonal average before the outbreak occurred. Japan put several measures in place to attempt to control the spread of infection including quarantining air travellers entering Japan who were suspected of having the virus and closing schools in areas of Japan with high numbers of infection.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported 198 Deaths as of March 30, 2010. At the height of the pandemic in October 2009, it was estimated that 20% of the Japanese population had been infected and that there were on average more than 20 infected people in each Japanese medical facility.

In August 2009, the government estimated that the virus strains had infected about 760,000 people. The first Japanese infections of H1N1 and Influenza A were both recorded early in May 2009. The World Health Organization raised the pandemic alert for influenza to level 4 in April 2009 following a worldwide outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain.

The 2009 Japan flu pandemic was an outbreak of the H1N1 and the Influenza A viruses across Japan.