Japan\u2019s success against the coronavirus without enforcing a strict lockdown is due to the citizens\u2019 \u201ccultural standard\u201d that is different from other nations, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, drawing criticism from the public that the comments were inappropriate.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther countries have called me up and asked me if we\u2019re the only ones with some drug against the virus or something,\u201d Aso said on Thursday in response to a question from a lawmaker on Japan\u2019s reputation of successfully containing the pandemic. \u201cWhen I tell them \u2018our country\u2019s cultural standard levels are different to yours,\u2019 they\u2019re left speechless. That\u2019s the simplest way to put an end to the questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the lack of harsh measures, Japan suffered far fewer coronavirus infections than any of its Group of Seven peers, with about 7 deaths per million, a track record that Aso noted<\/span> in his comments. Japan isn\u2019t an exception though in Asia, with Taiwan and South Korea reporting lower mortality rates. \u2014Bloomberg<\/p>\n Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japan\u2019s success against the coronavirus without enforcing a strict lockdown is due to the citizens\u2019 \u201ccultural standard\u201d that is different from other nations, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, drawing criticism from the public that the comments were inappropriate. \u201cOther countries have called me up and asked me if we\u2019re the only ones with some drug … Continue reading “We have ‘higher cultural standard’: Japanese FM on coronavirus outcome”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":20939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[12529,3257,2337,4646],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-coronavirus","tag-finance-minister","tag-japan","tag-taro-aso"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Taro Aso","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/taro_aso.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20940,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions\/20940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}