Reclassifying COVID-19 as seasonal flu, the Japanese government should clarify how it would respond in the event of risk of increased infections and deaths.
At least ten cities in China — including Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, and Chengdu — were shaken by protests last weekend. What are they demanding?
Despite appearances at the World Cup, China's protests continue as COVID cases surge. What will Xi Jinping do when he's driven to a corner?
Just as Hong Kong's 90-year-old Cardinal Zen was held guilty over a pro-democracy support fund, protests flared in China in open defiance against Xi Jinping.
Japan has managed the COVID-19 pandemic without compulsory lockdowns, penalizing the unvaccinated, and other illiberal measures. So why change it now?
~~ ~How does Japan cope? By avoiding the 3CsーClosed spaces, Crowded places and Close-contact settings~ Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has put the...
Although it has become somewhat of a political issue in some countries, medical authorities mostly concur that that wearing a face mask is useful the fight...
The state of emergency in Japan was lifted on May 25. Now, with schools reopening, it is heartening to once again see gaggles of school...
What have you been doing in lockdown? So many kimono events have been cancelled this year. In more usual times, I would have been...
Sometime in late last year, somewhere in Hubei Province in central China, probably in the city of Wuhan, a spiked virus measuring nanometers in...
The foreign media has begun to realize that the COVID-19 situation in Japan is different, but I’m puzzled by all the criticism we’ve faced....
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
