Bad news in Tokyo. We now have a preliminary count of the excess flu/pneumonia deaths for the month of March, from the National Institute Of Infectious Diseases.

Green is baseline. Purple is the NIID's threshhold of statistical anomaly. Blue is actuals

https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/ja/flu-m/2112-idsc/jinsoku/1852-flu-jinsoku-7.html

See also my thread on this subject from yesterday:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1254309725438529537

There's an official comment (to the NYT) listed in the second reply.