Japan lifts Tokyo's state of emergency, eyes fresh stimulus

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1. Japan has a handle on this

I think that the rest of the world could take lessons from Japan in how to deal with contagious diseases. They have about 126 million people (about 38% of the US) and have had only 16,580 cases and 830 deaths from covid19 as of yesterday. They aren't "this early" in their experience with the virus. Their peak rate of infection came in mid April, and has rapidly declined since then. I didn't read anywhere that Abe gave the "All-Clear". (Your Reuters article.) He said that opening the economy and activities would be done in steps with evaluations at each step, and that if the rates rise, steps would be taken to reimpose restrictions. Makes us look like a bunch of fools, and makes me wish I could live there, again. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-reassesses-Tokyo-and-Osaka-emergency-restrictions-Thursday