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There's been some interesting Japanese+English coverage lately about former defense minister Inada Tomomi. Inada has never exactly been popular with the centre/left-end of the spectrum, but over the last two
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Nikkei seems to have revived the debate about excess mortality due to COVID-19 in Tokyo with this article: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO59508030U0A520C2NN1000/ A few things to say below: It argues that excess
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Japan COVID-19 Stats Update 5: Things have continued to improve these last two weeks. Surely plenty of speculation as to why in the months ahead; and with the state of
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Sound like the oft-derided Japanese '3Cs' much?https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1260305939153985536 GOJ info has been promoting this for some time: https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/000061935.pdf It grew out of the focused 'active epi
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Weekly COVID-19 in Japan Stats Update-at the critical two point after the state of emergency was declared. A mixture of bad but also some not so bad this week. Perhaps
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Weekly COVID-19 in Japan aggregated stats update. In sum, another frustrating week but it could have been much worse given many countries experienced doubling rates of between 3-6 days in
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FNN/Sankei regular opinion poll conducted over the weekend: 65.3% approve of state of emergency declaration, 29% do not approve. However, 82.9% say it was too slow, vs 12.4% saying it
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The fate of Japan's influenza season has interested me, so I put down some simple thoughts based on the Japanese data available.https://sigma1.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/what-happened-to-japans-influenza-season/ Basic points are: 1) MHLW regular we
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