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by claudeganon 2310 days ago
No, the handling of the situation is worse than has been widely reported in the west. Japan is functionally doing nothing to contain it’s spread right now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-japan...

Japan has very poor rankings on press freedom, reporters are routinely fired for questioning the government, and Abe has a long history of being a dishonest, self-serving, authoritarian.

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-press-freedom...

They should be responding like Korea has been, but instead are just ignoring the situation.

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Yup.. because the games must go on!! /s