Mitsuo Matsuyama comments

I admit that I don't know very much about this omicron thing. Is this more dangerous than delta one's?

The number of infected people hospitalized with severe symptoms in Tokyo is three

This number was two yesterday. Hopefully all of them recover from it.

Politics always need to use sensitive issue to get sympathy from electors.

I heard that the entire Asia the sittuation is similar where number of cases and deaths is low.

For some reason, Japan does. It's a little bit embarrassing

Nope, that is not embarassing at all. Whoever who make statistics need to draw comparisons in order to have idea of how effectivity Asian countries are doing. If Europe is doing or not, that is not our problem.

If he were Japanese, he would have hung by the neck. Interesting that the Koreans pardoned their own but scream for Justice from Japan.

Exactly.

In addition to that, he was a awful head of state in S. Korea.

Lets suppose that the number of cases were 1 million, don't you think the number of hospitalized people would be ten times than current number?

As many people are getting vaccines, the more hope we have that things will improve. Of course, vaccines itself will not cure people. So, we still need to wear our masks and wash our hands with soup often.

Thomas GoodtimeToday  07:50 pm JST

I wonder if a while back European countries and America were writing articles about their vaccine rates being higher than Asia?

Nah, didn't think so. I don't know why vaccination rates seem like a competition here in Asia.

The article is just here to explain how much things has being improved in Asia. Comparing numbers with Europe or US doesn't mean Asian are using this number as competition as you suggest. When we work with statistics we need to make comparisons in order to see if we improved or not.

SmithinJapan having 1 case or 1 million case will not change the fact that there are few people hospitalized in Japan. In addition to that, I don't know any country in Europe that have more test than Japan that has same number of hospitalized people.

Doesn't matter how many people are tested, as long few people are hospitalized and the number of recovering is higher, the test thing is irrelevant.

ianToday  01:13 pm JST

If you are not admitted into the public hospital then you can not be counted as infected or as a death statistic.

Why not?

I guess it is his thought, just that. He doesn't have any evidence about it.

Open-mindedToday  11:52 am JST

People with common sense knows that the actual numbers are a lot higher. J-gov is manipulating they way they gather data or excludes information to show the actual infection rate.

Ok, can you give evidences about it?

If you are not admitted into the public hospital then you can not be counted as infected or as a death statistic.

Ok, can you give me a link that support your opinion? I bet you don't have.

Because home deaths are not being listed as covid deaths. Only those in a hospital. Better to overestimate the figures than underestimate them. The figures will still be low. In 2020, there were a total of fewer deaths than in 2019.

That is interesting. I read the whole article and there is nothing that suggest that deaths at home are not counted as covid deaths. Anyway, if you guys have a link that provides information about it, it would be interesting to read.

gakinotsukaiToday  06:58 pm JST

From the article and what many realistic people repeated here :

No one knows exactly how many died at home

But yeah, trust the official numbers ...

As I could understand this sentence is talking about common people and not about people who are encharged to give the account number. Off course common people don't know exactly how many people died at home since we as common people don't have information about it, but that doesn't mean the government is not aware about it.

When he didn't answer phone calls from public health workers for three days, police went to his home and found him dead in his bed.

From this sentence we can infer that police get the information and them reported it to Public Healthy workers

We have seen the number of cases bellow 500(497) since October 17th. Since them we had the election campaing and the end of state of emergency that according to some of us would affect the number, but this number didn't change, on the contrary, the number even came to 9 cases in Tokyo(I don't remember the day that JT reported) that was pretty low.

Some may arguee that it is due to "lack of test", but how can you explain the number of hospitalized people in Japan being low? None of us can immagine what would be the number of cases if Japan did over 100.000 tests by day, but we can say that despite of what number would be, the number of hospitalized people would remain the same, which is a great thing.

Whether Japan would have 100 cases or 100.000 cases, that number in the end would not be as important to see as the number of those who are hospitalized.

Of course, the number of cases may not be accurate, but the chance of this number be too big is exagerated since other datas show sign of improvement.

429 cases. By looking to this number we can conclude that things is getting better each day. If this number keeping falling, the number of zero case will be reality next month. Since we can't foresee the future, we still need to follow all rules.

The cooperation from citizens following the rules helps a lot such number decrease.

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If the number of infected people keep decreasing, so around november we will able to go to other cities safety, which doesn't mean we should low our guard.

China is afraid that Taiwan gets enough support from the US and other allies.

I personally think that this pandemic thing that China caused to the world helped other nations to see how evil is China and how Taiwan deserves to be respected and considered by other nations.

The fact of Taiwan being welcome to TPP's bid by Japan and US let a clear message that the world eventually will give support to Taiwan;

Yet, they want respect from other countries.

Actions like that will just prove that China is not worth of this respect from other nations.

Eventually, every coutries will give support to Taiwan.

Personally, I was thinking that this Olympic Games would not be succeed, and it would be like Montreal 1976 where the host country didn't get even one gold medal in that games.

I understand those who made criticism regarding financial thing, but I think all host country had this same thing too and all depends on how Japan will deal with it and how the government will solve it.

I rarely see you post about any other subject.

Considering the fact that most of his(her) comments regarding nationalism from China is on thread that talks about China's issue, it is more than normal to adress this subject my friend.

I'm pretty sure that if the subject were regarding Japanese song the content of his or her comment would not be "anti country thing".

I'm not on position to judge what is right or wrong because I don't know all the rules regarding gynastics. What I can tell is that supporters can't say things without expressing emmotion over reasons.

Nationalism is a very common sentiment in events like Olympic Games and the Chinese complaining about games is not a new thing.

ning1983 - Your knowledge about this topic is way limited. Contrary to China, most Asian nations supports Japan(Vietnam, Mongolia, Taiwan, Singapore, The Philippines, Malaysia, etc...). Now, what country respect China? Tell me. What country trust on China? Tell me.

Goodlucktoyou - I respect your opinion but, if you ignore the facts that nobody trusts on China, your argument loose all credibility.

Fighto

Actually this number( 233) is just one of them. Eventually those other companies will follow the same step. In fact more companies have leaved China since the beginning of this decade. Just remember that some years ago China had an anti-Japanese movement that caused Panasonic to leave that country.

With higher labor cost and strict demands mentioned here in Japan Today about Enviromental issues, foreigner companies will find itself hard to keep their production in China.

sources: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/31/business/corporate-business/panasonic-close-china-tv-factory/

Strangerland, I fell sorry, but i have faith that they will recover from it. When I used the verb "rejoice", it doesn't mean I didn't care about those who you mentioned in your comment.

Akie, you certainly knows what is the meaning of "bad relationship". Today none of the countries in Southeast Asia trust on China and relationship with Japan was never fully good. In order to this relationship turn to be good, China needs to stop bulling her neighbors that are allied with Japan and respect their territories and boundaries; things that we know it will never happen because China is greed and prideful.

Even though news reported on May that many Japanese companies were unwilling to leave China, many facts regarding the future of China would influence them to leave the communist state of China eventually.

Those China's fans would argue that it would be impossible to happen because China is the biggest market for foreign companies; however, when we analyze China by itself we note that it is not as easy and simple as many think.

China has a lot of problems: Environmental issues, Social Security, Bad relationship with her neighbors, Unemployment Rate, etc...

The Chinese government has the goal to cut greenhouse gas emission in 2060, but in order to do it there is a need to high investment on it and cooperation from citizens and foreign and national corporation. Companies need to invest on new machines and new technology; things that they are unwilling to do because they would loose a lot of money.

China is facing the increasing number of elderly people and fertility rate also is the problem(things that is very common in the whole world). In case of China, the young one's are also immigrating to other nations in mass according to the survey that was made some years ago that concluded that 70% of all Chinese student in US was not willing to go back to China. It is a very concerning thing.

Bad relationship with neighbors is not a good thing and it never was good. It affects business relationship that will affect the economy as well. If investment is not being made, those local companies will have hard time to deal with their business and it leads to unemployment. If people are unemployed, they don't have money, and without money they cannot afford to buy car, new computers, etc...If the number of consumers is low, foreigner companies that provide those goods will not have profit and no profit will result on trouble for them. That is why I'm saying that foreigner companies leaving China for completely will occur eventually.