nhk world christine hall has more about the anxiety that comes with welcoming the world once again. >porter: nearly hempity for months, travelers are back at japanese airports. these foreigners aren't tourists for now. japan lifted restrictions for longer term visitors this month, those with business and student visas can enter the country but go straight too a specialal are like this where they are tested for the coronavirus. then for two weeks the employer or school must guarantee they selflf-quarantine providining regular health updates to officials. >> translator: it is important to monitor theirir health for t weeks in japan. i thinkverythingg depends on how well the host companies or schools can guarantee they c ca do this properly. i think these sponsors need to think about how m many peoeopley can monitor before allowing them to enterer the country. >> reporter: tokyo is moving to ease restrictions as part of a plan to safely kickstart the economy. the pandemic has hurt companies and devastated tourism. now japan is rebuilding. one of the biggest impacts of the virus has been

. >> reporter: boris and christine, over the course of this 90-minute town hall, joe biden faced a range of questions from how to handle the coronavirus and the economy, and even his support of the 1994 crime bill. this was a very policy focused discussion as biden faced questions from a mix of undecided voters and people who have already decided if they're voting for trump or biden and one of the more note worthy exchanges came around the issue of court packing. that is a question that joe biden has deflected on for weeks now, as he has not given a cheer answer of whether he would add more justices to the supreme court, simply saying he's not a fan of it right now, but not entirely ruling it out in his answer on thursday night. take a listen to more of what he had to say. >> i'm not a fan. it depends on how this turns out. i'm open to considering what happens from that point on. >> you said so many times during the campaign, all through the course of your career, it's important to level. >> it is, but george, no matter what answer i gave you, if i say it, that's the headline tomorrow. i

reporter: laura and christine, after president trump objected to a virtual presidential debate, eyjoe bide and his campaign moved forward making other plans, they scheduled a town hall with abc news on october 15th, the date the second presidential debate was supposed to take place. the biden campaign is hoping the october 22nd debate will be a town hall format, instead of the planned one on one match up between the president and joe biden. the trump campaign simply wants the debates pushed back one week, with the final debate taking place on onctober 29th. the biden campaign insists the final debate should be october 22nd. president trump and his team would assure the commission that no one in their team attending that debate is infected with coronavirus something that will be watched in the coming weeks. joe biden traveled here to phoenix, arizona, with his running mate, kamala harris, and he was asked by reporters about president trump calling harris a monster. take a listen. >> it's despicable. it's despicable. so beneath the office of the presidency. and the american people are sick and tired of it. they know who this man is, it's got to stop. >> reporter: bide

christine, i'm not sure that anybody could have done better. it's amazing that even after all of this time the expectations of what trump will do still don't match reality. >> one hope is the town hallter. maybe they'll ask more questions and a better turn out. >>> despite the judge's ruling, montana expanded mail-in voting to safeguard against coronavirus. in both states people have to request ballots by mail. alabama has started and montana will begin tomorrow. >>> brad parscale stepped down as a senior advisor to the trump campaign on wednesday. he was hospitalized earlier in the week. in a statement obtained by politico, he wants to focus on his family and get help with dealing with overwhelming stress. he was demoted after a sparsely attended trump rally in tulsa, oklahoma. sources say he was rarely seen at campaign headquarters after that. >>> campaign is showing the number of women in senior official positions increased to 28% and that's progress, up to 23% in 2015. one in four are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the work force completely. if that plays out, it could result in $180 billion in annual potential earnings lost for women. the demand has made it m