Ken comments

got to love japanese understatement...

It’s a legal thing. Much easier to prove corpse abandonment than it is to prove murder. Gives police a relatively easy way to detain someone for longer while investigating more serious charges. It’s common in most legal systems, not just in Japan

here in Japan most women don’t have their first born until age 40

The average in for women giving birth for the first time in Japan is 30.7 years old

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01363/#:~:text=According%20to%20demographic%20statistics%20published,since%20records%20began%20in%201950.

@Monty

It's a novel virus though, it will settle down and the shots will space out. Don't expect there to be another booster before next winter

@Monty

This would be shot Number 5.

I'm just about to get my 41st flu shot next week. Probably going to be the same for COVID, annual shot slightly adjusted for whatever variant is doing the rounds that particular year but you don't hear anyone saying the same or counting the number of flu jabs they've gotten

@nemo

Good and get rid of the tour requirements too

Did you even read the article or just the headline? It’s literally in the second paragraph “The government will simultaneously relax other restrictions including a visa requirement and the requirement to travel on a package tour”

That was a DUMB thing to do

Nice bit of victim blaming there!!

Only 10,000 people get HPV

Only 10,000 preventable illnesses and posible deaths

@foreigner in Tokyo

Have you tried to get tested recently? It’s really rather simple. My daughter had the sniffles last week and her doctor ordered PCRs for everyone in our house, no problems.

what you’re saying may have been true at the beginning of the pandemic but it’s a different situation now

@Good

If you pay tax to the city, you should have a say in how it’s run. Every taxpayer should have the right to vote

@burning bush

No matter how hard you try, you aren't getting access to my body.

I bet you’d give them access to your body if you presented to the emergency room unable to breathe after catching COVID.

@Nibek32

If you click the link in the article it will take you to the official released figures including number of tests.

Tests conducted on 8/29 (the day reported) were 3,112. It's all there, linked in the article

@Ashley Shiba

 the majority that are in ICU are in their 20's, 30's and 40's

Where are you getting your information? Please link your sources.

Toyokeizai give very different statistics for people in serious condition or in ICU:

80s+ - 88 people

70s - 151

60s - 115

50s - 99

40s - 48

30s - 2

20s - 0

10s - 1

under 10 - 0

You can find all this information yourself here:

https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/

The patient is not displaying severe symptoms

If they are not displaying severe symptoms then why are they being hospitalised ahead of locals who are being refused admission left, right and centre?!

Man tried to light a fire using salad oil. Seriously doubt he’d be able to make a bomb

This is going to be a never ending story for the time being

It’s either never ending or it’s for the time being. It can’t be both lol

Your post sums up the intelligence of most of the post on this site, self-contradicting drivel!!

@AG

Positive cases from private clinics do not count to the official daily tally.

Genuine question, not doubting you are correct but, what’s your source on this information?