The ministry’s website has not updated its 2020 slides on initial pandemic response. Japan has had lower deaths per capita than some extensively vaccinated countries.
The world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, calculates that, if 10,000 spectators observed appropriate measures in the National Stadium, there would effectively be zero new infection. At least...
In early July, several prefectures saw the supply of vaccines distributed to them drop. Yet, on July 8, PM Suga said “there are still 40 million...
The world put faith in Japan’s COVID-19 countermeasures and its ability to prepare. To host an Olympics with no spectators is an embarrassing catastrophe for the...
After an initial glacial pace of vaccinations through April, now the total doses administered in Japan have jumped to over 34 million.
With a population of 97 million, Vietnam has vaccinated less than 2 percent of its population as of June 16, the lowest figure in Southeast Asia.
Japan, as the only member of the G7 from Asia, must be ready to take on a leading role in overcoming the China problem.
With its bellicose expansionism, suppression of human rights, and unfair trade practices, China has clearly demonstrated that it does not share the principles of G7 member...
In the first week of June, approximately 71,641 shots were administered in the Tokyo center, and 34,867 in the Osaka site, according to the numbers released...
Japan has much more to lose than money. The international trust in Japan and the Japanese people will be hard to regain once lost.
The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics represent a good opportunity for Japan to demonstrate to the world the achievement of Japanese people in overcoming adversity.
To recall, Taiwan was the first to report the detection of “a virus similar to SARS” in the Wuhan area, but because of China’s influence, the...