Covid-19 and Japan does nothing?
 

So, outside of this forum is also a virus. I guess most of you have been affected and hopefully not infected. Apparently, Japan is very cool about the corona virus. On the weekend were events for several thousands people. Why do you think this is so?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion...virus-outlier/

As of 24th/Mar, the strategie of Japanese "committee of specialist against COVID19" was not so bad. Their strategie is to save the heavy patients and to avoid the "getting many people together".

The stratedie had been working good as of earlier half of last week, but in the latter half of last week, the number of the patients increased unexpectedly who were not traced the route of infection.

Instead of "test as possible as they can", they traced all the route of infection to the COVID19 patients. If they lost the "routes", they could do nothing to fight with COVID19.

How quiet KYOTO is these days.

Some people start "tele-working" (remote work), but I'm still commuting by train with mask (washable-reusable). Most people wear masks (over 80%) in the train. Also I wash my hands every one hour in office and just after returning home.

At weekend, I will not go out except for buying something by car. I prevent meeting people as less as I can.

Though taking such care for my health, I had got sick last week. I had cough and my body temperature was 37.1 degree Celcius at max for one day. I was absent from office for three days and come back on Friday.

When I got 37.1 degree, I called government health support. They asked me of the temperature, feeling of fatigue and abnormal sense of taste. As I have not latter two matters, they did not guide me to the Corona testing.

Now I'm happy and feel healthy. But I'm not sure I'm completely recovered because my body temperature is still slightly more than usual one.

By the way, Japanese electronic equipment maker "Sharp" stated in 2004 that they found their "Plasmacluster Ion Air Cleaner" destroys some kind of Corona Virus.

URL is https://jp.sharp/plasmacluster-tech/.../04072701.html and Google translated farmer part as follows.

==== Translation by Google ====

Validated by joint research with Kitasato Institute
World's first * 1 , Plasmacluster Ion (R) * 2 technology inactivates floating "Coronavirus"
In recent years, new viral infections such as SARS (Coronaviridae) and avian influenza (Orthomyxoviridae) have occurred, and the number of cases that threaten people's health has increased. Sharp has pursued air purification using new technologies and has systematically verified the effects of plasma cluster ions on harmful substances that cause airborne diseases. This time, in cooperation with Dr. Tatsuo Suzuki and Dr. Noriotada Kobayashi, the Kitasato Institute and the Kitasato Institute Medical Center Hospital, a world-leading institution in virus research, the feline coronavirus belonging to the coronaviridae family was treated with plasma cluster ions. An activation demonstration experiment was conducted. As a result, we demonstrated that 99.7% was inactivated within 40 minutes, that is, it was able to destroy viruses and suppress infectivity.

As a result, the efficacy of plasma cluster ions in three basic types of major pathogenic viruses caused by airborne infections could be verified.

"Plasma cluster ion technology" is a technology that releases a large amount of positive and negative ions generated from water molecules and oxygen molecules in the air into the air to surround mold, influenza virus, mite allergens, etc. This is a revolutionary air purification technology that is inactivated by a reaction. We developed this technology in 2000, and are working to verify its efficacy in collaboration with academic research institutions around the world based on the idea of ​​academic marketing * 3 .

* We are also working on the demonstration of the effect of plasma cluster ions on inactivating SARS virus.
* 1 As of July 27, 2004, at Plasmacluster Ion
* 2 Plasmacluster, Plasmacluster Ion and Plasmacluster are trademarks of Sharp Corporation.
* 3 A marketing method for verifying scientific data on the efficacy of technology in collaboration with advanced academic research institutions and promoting commercialization based on the data.


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Their Product is here. https://jp.sharp/kuusei/plasmacluster/ (in Japanese with photo).

I have the Air Cleaner by Sharp and is using it sometimes (not always). I'm not sure it works against virus or not.

Japanese Prime Minister "ABE, SHINZO" stated "Emergency Situation" yesterday.

Then what will happen ?

In Tokyo and other six cities, many schools, universities, restaurants and shops are closed and the students and employees will move back their home town in rural area. Some of the people will bring corona virus with them.

How does the statement work? Who knows?

Though ”Emergency Declaration" was made, my life has not changed so much.

I still commute to the office, buy something in local market or convenient store.

Since February, I stopped meeting friend periodically. I usually drink alcohol with friend not so much.

One plan I changed after the declaration is week end driving in mountain side of KANAGAWA pref. I thought it is a good idea to spend weekend for driving because i will not meet many people and rural restaurant could be very slow. I stopped driving because many other people think just same as me.

On the other hand, local business people have got huge damage from the declaration. Restaurants, department stores and movie theaters are almost closed. I'm afraid if they could keep their business for half a year.

There are less people on the street, a few cars on the road in Japan.

And TV shows are getting boring day by day because they can neither make the shows in studio nor on the locations. They can only make combinations of old materials which are to be abandoned.

Around 300 people died from COVID-19 in Japan. It is very few compared with western countries.

Because of the less number of the dead, Japanese government thinks things easier than the ones should be.

Some people might believe "Japan is protected by the gods of Japan" like as the "KAMIKAZE" episode.

Almost 70% of my facebook friends take "work at home". My company also take "work at home" for its 95%. I belong to the 5%. I still commute every day.

You can find the COVID19 Situations in Japan.

https://covid19japan.com/

You can change the language by clicking on the top left links.

Once I had been believing that "NATTO will work to prevent COVID19".
Because I thought NOTTO germ is strong enough to kill COVID-19 virus.

I was wrong. Virus is different from germs. Virus does not live, die, eat nor breed. We can not kill virus but just destroy them.

However, NATTO protects you from COVID-19 anyway. Refer to the recent Report by Guardian. It refers to the vitamin K included in NATTO.

Try NATTO on rice or on bread after stirring at least 50 times.

This is the starred NATOO in tasty mood.


And you can add sugar, pepper, sesami, egg or whatever you like (except for vinegar) to enjoy NATTO.

As I have been eating NATTO almost every morning for over twenty years, I can say I'm full of NATOO.

There are some COVID related information center for foreigners in Japan.

TOKYO Corona consulting center
0120-296-004 weekday 10 AM to 5 PM

Labour problem Q and A
https://COVID19-labourqanda.jimdosite.com/

Lawyer for foreign technical student
03-6427-5902 (TOKYO), 011-231-1888 (SAPPORO) weekday, daytime only

POSSE:Foreign labourer Support Center
03-6699-9359 (TOKYO) 022-302-3349 (SENDAI) weekday except for Wednesday 9 AM to 5 PM, other 1 PM to 5 PM, not on Wednesday.
E-mail:supportcenter@npoposse.jp

Human rights for foreigners
0570-090911 (Ten Languages) weekday AM 9 to PM 5
法務省：外国人のための人権相談

Just before my previous post about "NATTO", I tried "NATTO with sugar" for the first time in my life. It was not so bad.

As for vinegar, I have never tried it with NATTO. And I had been believed vinegar would harm NATTO germ. But I was wrong. I found some web site which recommends NATTO with vinegar. Try !

I tried NATTO with vinegar and soy sauce. Vinegar seems to make NATOO mild in taste and smell.

I mean AJI-PON (left side in photo) by vinegar and soy sauce.



I also tried NATTO with sugar, AJI-PON and black pepper. It is nice! I recommend it for NATTO beginners.

I will try NATTO with salsa sauce and NATTO with tomato ketchup.

Corona case is increasing in Tokyo after normalize declaration.

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories...20/06/48-4.php (in Japanese)

Blue graph shows the cases in Tokyo and red graph shows not-traceable cases within the total cases.

The cases in Tokyo is still increasing. (source: https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories...7/13143425.php)
We have 110 cases yesterday and the 70 % of them are in their age of 20s or 30s.

Those cases are made mainly at drinking places in SHINJUKU or IKEBUKURO.

Most of the drinking places take care of the social distance and other treats but in some "Host club" where services for rich girls are provided and in some "KYABA-KURA(cabaret club)" where services for unhappy dads are provided, they do not take care of the unti-virus treatment.

These host-clubs and KYABA-KURA should be disclosed their names by the Tokyo government but government does not. The cases will be increased unless these site are left running without virus treatment.

Though cases are increasing, number of people in severe situation is still low.

You can see the deaths per million for each coutory here. (in English, source : SAPPORO medical university)

By the way, NATTO with salsa sauce is good with the sauce in the NATTO package, but tomato ketchup is not so good.

On 9th/July 2020, the cases in Tokyo extended to 224.

It is "YABAI"(in bad situation).

Days of over 200 cases per day is still continuing.
(https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories...07/2004200.php)

The cases are found among the night business people in SHINJUKU or IKEBUKURO. And the test would be taken concentrately on those people.

But the total death has been added 10 for these 2 weeks (972 on 28/June and 982 on 12/July for all ver Japan) according to the site:COVID19JAPAN.COM.

Cases of COVID19 in Tokyo is increasing exponentially.
(information from https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories.../07/300-14.php)

Japanese government is planning to start "go to travel" campaign on 22/July in which government supports travellers living in Japan to help hotels and other sight seeing businesses.

The campaign has the precondition that it starts after COVID19 cases ceased. The government seems to ignore it.

On the other hand, each local government tend to stop or postpone the campaign because traveling people would transfer COVID virus all through Japan.

As the result of compromisation, Japanese government restricts the campaign. The travels from Tokyo or to Tokyo are removed from the campaign.

The campaign will fail because each people are suspicious about COIVD transfer. In fact, one of my friends tried to reserve a hotel in NAGANO pref and was refused because he is living in KANAGAWA pref which is one of worst five pref for COVID.

Things about COVID19 are getting worse in Japan.
Not in Tokyo but also in Osaka, the cases went beyond 100. And the number of death is increasing after 12/july.

You can find current situation at the government official site.
https://corona.go.jp/en/

The detailed data and graph are on Japanese page.
https://corona.go.jp/

We have no good news against COVID19 in Japan.

The situation is not worst. It will be getting worse day by day.

Japanese government concerns "economical activity first". They accept the cases and death to some degree.

It is already nonsense to look at only the cases in Tokyo.

You can find the number of cases all over Japan here.

It seems to have some feed back made by Japanese people who watch the increasing cases.

Here is the COVID19 situation in Tokyo as of today (in Japanese).

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories...020/08/222.php

Translate this WEB page using Google Translate.

Guide: http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...-language.html

You can check COVID19 latest situation in Tokyo at this web page.

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/tagsear...%AB%E3 %82%B9

then you can translate it by following this guide.

http://www.japanforum.com/forum/japa...-language.html

For daily statistics of COVID in Japan and other country, visit here.

Japan has been attacked by the 3rd wave of COVID19.

We have lost 3800 lives by COVID19 in last year.

But in **Total**, the number of death was decreased by 14,000 (or 1.2%) in Japan because Japanese people keep taking care of anti-infection like as washing hands, wearing mask or having "social distance".

In 2019, we have over 100,000 deaths by influenza but it was decreased to 70 in 2020.

We have many Gods, Monsters and devils in Japan. We have "God of Poverty" and "God of death" which are hard to categorize.

Among them, "AMABIE" is a kind of "妖怪:ようかい；YOUKAI(Monster)" for massive disease.

Once in a pandemic situation, AMABIE appeared in front of the people and told them "draw me and show the figure to every people". I don't know the result but I found many AMABIE figures in the market. Search AMABIE in amazon.

COVID cases in Tokyo as of 31/Jan/2021.

It seems to be under control by the Emergency declaration on 8/Jan.

Emergency Declaration against COVID was planed 8/Jan to 7/Feb by Japanese Government. But it was extended to 7/Mar.

This Extension causes huge damages to food business and others. Government plans to end the declaration when cases per day does down to 500 (in Tokyo for example). Government hopes cases will decreased under 500 in Tokyo before 7/Mar.

If cases keep over 500 until 7/Mar, Tokyo Olympic will face crisis.

The situation in Tokyo indicates more optimistic than expected.

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories.../02/3500_2.php

You can find many AMABIE goods in Amazon Japan.

These AMABIE might protect Japan from COVID.

Cases per day got under 500 in Tokyo.

One of the factors to withdraw emergency declaration is now satisfied. Government must make critical decision.

A Japanese doctor posted an article about COVID19 in Japan. Here is the summery in English.

"Successful loose restrictions in Japan and consideration of COVID-19 measures"

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories...st-95655_5.php

Vaccine Inoculation has been started in Japan.

Vaccine just suppress the severe situation of COVID-19. But COVID virus still stays in every person and infection still lasts.

Even though 100% of Japanese people get vaccine, we all will still have the COVID virus with us. It is far from the complete situation to have Olympic in safe.

Cases found per day will decrease. But virus will still be there. Is this the situation we should aim ?

As of 20/Feb/2021, Cases in Tokyo(327) and in Japan(1234) are as follows.

Declaration of Emergency has been extended by two weeks for capital area (TOKYO, KANAGAWA, CHIBA and SAITAMA).

As for TOKYO, the number of cases seems to keep over 200. I mean It will be difficult to be under 200 within at least a month.

Expectations of the cases in TOKYO as of 5th/Mar.

As expected, we are having the fourth wave of COVID in Japan.

Does the two week extension of "Emergency Declaration" works ? No, no one believe it.

Also Japanese OIC decided to refuse foreign audience of Tokyo Olympic.

Can we have the Olympic ? I don't know.

How to wear mask at restaurant : Recommendation by KANAGAWA pref. local government. Skip first 40 seconds.

In April/2021, the cases increased in OSAKA. The situation is much severe than in TOKYO because of COVID-19 variant.

The variant will move to TOKYO and other area in Japan rapidly.

North Korea decided not to join the TOKYO Olympic. It is clever decision. Who will follow them ?

We have 「蔓延防止重点措置(MAN-BOU)」 applied in TOKYO, KYOTO and OKINAWA additionally (added to existing OSAKA, HYOGO and MIYAGI).

What is "MAN-BOU"? What is the difference between MAN=BOU and Emergency declaration?

MAN-BOU could be translated as "process to prevent epidemic spread of COVID-19". And it is requested by local government (prefecture) and approved by Japan government.

Sorryto say, I do not understand the details.