Opinion
Postcard from Tokyo: Life in surprisingly low-tech lockdown
While the Japanese have a great deal of resilience and are used to disasters, lockdown is testing their patience - and the old ways of working and studying.
Melanie BrockContributorPeople ask me how things are in Japan and I don’t know what to say. I want to say we are going to be fine and I really hope that is the case, but I just don’t know.
Even the Nikkei, the daily Japanese business newspaper, went hard in its call to the government to rectify what it sees as a big lag in COVID-19 testing, and a shortage in ICU beds.
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