No, but it weakens his argument/protestations that the Scotland game should go ahead. In his own words, if it can't be played on the day it will have to be called a draw.

Hopefully it will go ahead as the storm should have passed by then but you can see how the Japanese might be in no rush to fulfil the fixture and if transport systems etc. are not back fully running they will feel justified in calling it off and taking the two points needed to qualify.