Japan’s Secret to Taming the Coronavirus: Peer Pressure

Japan’s Secret to Taming the Coronavirus: Peer Pressure

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/asia/japan-covid.html

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  1. More like not testing or reporting deaths due to covid accurately. But hey, at least they keep the gaijin out.

  2. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/02/world/asia/japan-covid.html) reduced by 93%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Social conformity – and a fear of public shaming that is instilled from the youngest ages – has been a key ingredient in Japan's relative success in Covid prevention, experts say.

    > In Japan, "If you tell people to look right, they will all look right," said Kazunari Onishi, an associate professor of public health at St. Luke's International University in Tokyo.

    > During the pandemic, politicians tapped "Into this collective idea of self-restraint for the public good," said James Wright, an anthropologist at the Alan Turing Institute in London who has studied Japan's coronavirus response.

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