[brenden2]

Japan has pretty low rates of obesity and heart disease, that might be related to the low death rate from the virus.

[lbeltrame]

Or perhaps the virus did not make way into hospitals or nursing care homes. That's what happened in Italy, with hospitals turned into infection centers. And hospitals have a significant number of people at risk in them. Same for nursing care homes.

[esyir]

This is the country with the most dramatically aged population though. I'm rather surprised.

[thonos]

Yeah that’s a plausible theory