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...and yet "Japan Pushes Ahead With Plan to Add Russian Gas Imports. CEO of Mitsui says ‘world’s energy balance will collapse’ unless Siberia natural-gas project goes forward"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-pushes-ahead-with-plan-to-add-russian-gas-imports-11651491927

MountainVPNMar. 17  06:56 pm JST

Well of course not. Korea and Germany actually test, aren't ashamed to test, and aren't ashamed to report high infection numbers to the world.

What is the purpose of testing if 99.99999% of the population has no symptoms?

are the 300,000 fellow Tokyoites who have been infected within the past month, included or excluded in your obviously validated statistics?

IMO, anyone who cares must stop buying Chinese goods and lobby their government to isolate China as well. China has activated its currency swap facility to keep Russia running, China has also been letting Russia bypass swift by using its settlement system.

China is now as guilty as Russia in this horrific genocide.

How about India? They abstained in the last UN Security Council vote to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Why you may ask?

Perhaps because Russia continues to be India's largest arms supplier? Perhaps because Moscow has vetoed UNSC resolutions over disputed Kashmir in the past to help India keep it a bilateral issue?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60552273

One would think that Bach was still to occupied converting all of his ill gotten ¥ from the past Summer Games, to have time to try to make the IOC look like a non-corrupt organization.

As a placeholder for all of the anti-vax rubbish that will surely follow in this forum:

“Japanese study suggests booster shots are effective against Omicron”

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220217_23/

The kid would have been admitted even if he had flunked the exams. Heck, Harvard or Yale would probably admit him in a few years even if he’s not qualified just because of his title.

well that’s how US President George W Bush got into Yale…legacy entitlement, especially if you consider that he ended up with a C+ overall academic average. Finally, how do you think he also got his Harvard MBA?

It's a school entrance exam. The news would be if he didn't pass.

you mean like the former princess’ husband who failed the NY State bar?

Other countries have seen between a 60-90% decline in their 7 day averages within 3-4 weeks from their peak. Japan cases peaked between Jan 30-Feb 4. 

I believe that may be a bit of an over generalization, as said other countries include those in which 3rd jab boosters have been widely implemented. Japan is at last report unfortunately only at 11%..

Hmm, with only 11% of the total population being boosted and current output at Jgov vax sites in Tokyo is 5000/day, Tokyo with a population of 14 million, means that Omi will become endemic in how many days? Weeks? Years?

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will ask coronavirus patients who are aged under 50 and isolated at home with no or mild symptoms to self-monitor their conditions, starting next Monday...40,000 patients were self-isolated at home in Tokyo as of Wednesday. They say the number could rise to 193,000, if daily cases in Tokyo continue hovering around 20,000 for another 10 days.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220127_30/

Of course this LDP policy will lead to zero "community transmission", eh?

John NounToday  07:36 pm JST

It'd be nice to see more testing to be honest. Give an honest reflection so professionals can act accordingly.

What is the testing capacity in Tokyo? 20,000?

Any testing capacity this low will not provide an accurate record of the true infected number. As a comparison, the state of California with a total population 3-4x that of Tokyo, is doing over 2 million tests/day in order to know what’s really going on.

In this forum, I suppose one takes the 75% positivity rate whichever way that you see fit.

Why even bother with a change in this policy? Since over 260,00 infected are being forced to stay at home, Omi is going to be everywhere from infected household to household.

R = 2.2 in Tokyo, and 2.3 nationwide. 5th wave is upon us. Be safe when you go outside.

AllenToday  06:20 pm JST

@paul

The supposed death in Texas, they haven’t even answered whether he had one vaccine or no vaccine. Remember Paul the term unvaccinated has changed.

It was reported a few days ago that the patient previously had a different covid infection, and that he was never vaccinated, and why are you claiming that it was a “supposed” death? Baseless statements are not helpful, but if that’s your way to live life, then carry on.

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said it is most likely Japan's first case of community spread 

The Gov. should have said “It is most likely Japan's first KNOWN case of community spread”

“Coughing behind mask” is not a symptom of exhaustion. I wonder what it is a symptom of? Hmm…Nonetheless, the typical pro-Jgov media will never tell the whole truth, in order for the LDP to stay in power.

…poured all of my strength into dealing with the various problems facing the country, with anti-coronavirus measures at the forefront”,

Does that include the beeru pouring at the Ginza steak dinner party last year during the pandemic?

KumagaijinToday  11:45 am JST

I've said this before, but they should have put the Yakuza in charge of vaccinations from the get-go. They get stuff done in this country.

I was just about to make a similar comment. Just like how the Yakuza saved Kobe after the quake, now they're getting good PR by lending out their pachinko palours. We all know that no matter how many "safety response simulations" are put on with all of their cute little vehicles, the J-gov is actually not able to respond capably to any actual major emergency.

131 cases in the 10 days since they officially started counting. Not a great start.

So the LDP’s view that Delta is only infectious after 20:00… which has proven to be such an effective deterrent to increasing numbers of patients…is their path forward. Be safe everyone.

Once again we see the highly competent LDP logic in action, when basically saying “children don’t spread Delta”… similar to their SOE in which Delta only becomes infectious after 20:00

Would this be the LDP's SOE, in which the Delta variant is regarded as only being infectious after 8pm?

AntiquesavingToday  03:26 pm JST

So entire teams violated the rules and nothing was done.

Well so much for the IOC playbook.

Oh where is "the IOC promised".?

They already got their payola from host nation entities, so anything they say now is just bs to cover their arses.

Just announced that 21 people have been in close contact with Infected South African team.

Cancel this disastrous event now please

Dear Suga-san,

Could you please make sure my senior-aged mom in Ariake gets one, before you send them to other countries?

Koke-San isn’t even following the 3C’s in the headline photo, although shoulder-to-shoulder could be seen as being socially “distant” in overpopulated Tokyo.

These are horrible vulture companies, taken up to 30% of sales from hard working independent restaurants. It’s an unfortunate catch-22 situation for these small shop owners, when these billion dollar corporations enter their areas.

Due to these clueless website operators that keep losing private information of its users...we’ll never be able to get rid of our hanko.

JR too cheat to pay for a co-pilot? Then at least they should pay for a complete year's worth of adult diapers for each solo driver within the system.

More of the clown show... now the phone companies are capping phone calls for vaccine appointments (via NHK):

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210510_12/