Advert Offers Scathing Rebuke of Japanese Government’s COVID Response

If this continues, the government will kill us all

The advert, taken out by Tokyo-based publishing firm Takarajimasha, appeared on May 11 in the Nikkei Shimbun.

Japan has received considerable praise from foreign media for maintaining a comparatively low coronavirus infection rate despite low testing, poor tracking, and a lax policy on lockdowns. The reasons are complex and open to debate, as a lack of data puts in-depth…