National Institute of Infectious Diseases has released (at GISAID) nine UK Variant B.1.1.7 SARS CoV2 sequences (Japan/IC-0446/2020, Japan/IC-0449/2020, Japan/IC-0454/2020, Japan/IC-0455/2020, Japan/IC-0456/2020, Japan/IC-0485/2020, Japan/IC-0486/2020, Japan/IC-0498/2020, Japan/IC-0499/2020) from Japan ex-UK collected in Dec.