The period from May 25th 2020 onwards up until January 7th could be summarised as a constant grow of COVID-19 cases. June being peaceful up until the end due to May's restrictions still gradually phasing out, then large upticks during July/August and past-October especially (On October 31st the TOTAL number of cases recorded in the past 10 months - so since the start of covid in february - in japan stood at around 100,000, and just in November that number grew by almost a half - 46,000, then by 82,000 in just December)
From what I understand, not much was done in response aside from alcohol serving / restaurant working hour restrictions, possibly closing school, and the general mask / 2 meter / wash yo hands requirements - better yet, the Japanese government started a "Go To Travel" campaign encouraging inland traveling (which was met with a "Stop Go To Travel" opposition), organized the Olympics despite 80% of the population standing against it, and kept easing travel bans from countries, as well as other covid restrictions put in place in the original emergency state.
My knowledge comes from the extensive report on July specifically on wikipedia and scrolling kyodonews for two hours (the Japanese love their martial arts, don't they?).

From January 7th emergency states finally re-emerged, for the first time since May, and the events are detailed below:
07.01.21 - "Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in the Tokyo metropolitan area (...) effective from Friday to Feb. 7 "
13.01.21 - "The applying region of the state of emergency was expanded to (...) Fukuoka."
02.02.21 - "The Japanese government [TJG onwards] extended the state of emergency (...) by one month to March 7"
01.03.21 - "The state of emergency was lifted in (...) Fukuoka"
05.03.21 - "TJG extended the COVID-19 state of emergency covering the Tokyo metropolitan area by two weeks"
18.03.21 - "TJG decided Thursday to end the COVID-19 state of emergency in the Tokyo region on Sunday [March 21st]"
24.04.21 - "Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in Tokyo (...) through May 11"
07.05.21 - "TJG decided Friday to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency area to May 31 (...) will now be expanded to Aichi and Fukuoka"
28.05.21 - "TJG on Friday extended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo, Fukuoka to June 20"
09.07.21 - "TJG decided to place Tokyo under a COVID-19 state of emergency for the duration of the Olympics, effective from Monday to Aug. 22"
30.07.21 - "The COVID-19 emergency for Tokyo and Okinawa will be extended until the end of the month. (...) Fukuoka under quasi-emergency"
17.08.21 - "TJG decided Tuesday to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency to Sept. 12 (...) with the addition of (...) Fukuoka"
09.09.21 - "Japan's government decided Thursday to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency again (...) will remain in place through Sept. 30"

TL;DR The Japanese end-of-emergency-state delays are far worse than Elden Ring's
Almost constant states of emergency for both Tokyo and Fukuoka with various breaks;

Tokyo starting January 7th until March 21st, then after a month-long break starting again from April 24th to June 20th, and after a 19-day break it started again July 9th;

Fukuoka starting late on January 13th lasting until March 1st, then restarting - after a 2 month break - from May 5th to June 20th, then finally after another month long break, beginning from August 17th (without counting it's quasi-emergency that begun July 30th);

Both last to this day, September 26th, which isn't surprising considering this year's august brought with it a record-breaking amount of 545,000 new cases (still less than 2 days worth in USA'S peak)

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Pub: 25 Sep 2021 16:46 UTC
Edit: 26 Sep 2021 11:02 UTC
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