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The COVID-19 pandemic in Japan casts a shadow over how we remember this ten-year commemoration of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011. These two disasters, one a global pandemic and the other a
Scene 1: India. 2020. A four-year-old boy donated his savings of Rs. 971 to the Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister’s relief fund to fight the novel coronavirus. The Chief Minister shared the heartwarming news on Twitter and assured the child
Editors’ Note: This blogpost was written originally in May 2020. On May 9, 2020, the total death toll from COVID-19 in Japan exceeded 600. Opinions have differed as to how this figure should be viewed, even within the country.
2020年5月9日に、日本のCOVID-19による死者は、総計600名を超えました。この数字をどうみるかは、国内でも種々意見が分かれています。政府は当面、現在の緊急事態宣言を延長する方針を固めました。
There have been many theories, discussions and debates about what combination of factors contributed to Japan’s success up until now in preventing uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 and health system collapse. Oft-described as surprising or mysterious by foreign media, this success
As a science education researcher who has been interested in disasters for several years, my job, in times of disaster, is to collect a range of primary and secondary information about the crisis and draw lessons for how we teach
En estas Pascuas de Resurrección, las dudas se adueñaron de la viña del señor. Dudas poco divinas, también es cierto. Porque la falta de fe, en este caso, apunta a la estadística, sin llegar –válgame Dios– a socavar las bases
“Wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds” is a measure whose effectiveness above all other methods of preventing infection is advertised these days from the left and right, from the north and south, regardless of industry and nationality. Handwashing
As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings
衛星写真で見てみましょう。日本は、7000弱の島々が線状に連なる島嶼国です。しかも、国土の約7割は山岳地帯で、森林に覆われています。
Let’s take a look at some satellite photos. Japan is an island country with a linear chain of a little less than 7,000 islands. Incredibly, about 70% of the country is mountainous and covered with forests. This topographical feature has
“Lavarse las manos con jabón durante 20 segundos” es una medida cuya eficacia sobresale frente a cualquier otro remedio de los que, en estos días, se anuncian por izquierda y por derecha, por el norte y por el sur, por
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As in many other places, there is a debate now playing out in Japan that frames restrictions on the movement of people as inherently opposed to the economic interests of the nation. Economic revitalization has been the keystone of the second Abe administration…
The Teach311.org + COVID-19 collective and the History of Science ON CALL project are pleased to co-present this Note from the Field from historian Angela Ki Che Leung about the role of the humanities in understanding and dealing with the
This contribution introduces the pandemic situation in Africa as seen from a student situated in Zimbabwe. This piece serves as the preface to the Diary Project from Zimbabwe, written in alternation by Constance Myambo, an undergraduate student at the University
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With a national daily increase in the number of new COVID-19 infections hitting a record high of 200 on April 7, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo declared a state of emergency for Tokyo, its neighboring prefectures and also Osaka, Hyogo, and
There is no newspaper or television program these days that does not talk about toilet paper. Or, rather, that does not talk about the inexplicable anxiety felt by those trying to secure just one roll, or expressed by those stockpiling
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Today, on March 31, health officials in Chiba Prefecture, just outside of Tokyo, announced that there are now 93 officially recognized cases of COVID-19 linked to a care facility for people with mental disabilities. This large cluster was discovered after
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Today I woke up to the news that the popular comedian Shimura Ken had become Japan’s first celebrity casualty to COVID-19; and to the word, spreading through social media, that the Japanese government would call for a lockdown at the
No hay diario ni programa de televisión que no hable del papel higiénico o, mejor dicho, de las neurosis inexplicables desatadas por conseguir un rollo y acopiarlos en decenas. Aprovecharemos estos días para trazar unas historias del papel y de