Why does Japan have so few cases of COVID‐19?

Graphical Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has spread to many countries around the world, but the infection and death rates vary widely. One country that appeared to have kept the infection under control despite limited societal restrictions is Japan. This commentary explores why Japan may have, up to...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	EMBO Molecular Medicine
Main Authors:	Akiko Iwasaki, Nathan D Grubaugh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Springer Nature 2020-04-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202012481

Similar Items

The arrival of Mpox in Venezuela: Why so few cases?
by: Mario Comegna, et al.
Published: (2023-07-01)

Why have so many African leaders died of COVID-19?
by: Jean-Benoît Falisse, et al.
Published: (2021-05-01)

Why are there so few pathogens? Ecology and evolution in pathogen emergence
by: John M. Drake
Published: (2025-08-01)

Why are there so few pathogens? Ecology and evolution in pathogen emergence.
by: John M Drake
Published: (2025-08-01)

Why Does Indonesia Have a High Covid-19 Case-Fatality Rate?
by: Erwin Bramana Karnadi, et al.
Published: (2021-10-01)

Why Are There So Few Carbon Offset Projects in Pacific Island Countries?
by: Paul Dargusch, et al.
Published: (2011-06-01)

Why Do So Few Preliminary Questions Come From Czechia?
by: Kunertová Tereza
Published: (2024-06-01)

Why Are There So Few Basidiomycota and Basal Fungi as Endophytes? A Review
by: Nattawut Rungjindamai, et al.
Published: (2024-01-01)

Why Do so Few People with Heart Failure Receive Cardiac Rehabilitation?
by: David R Thompson, et al.
Published: (2022-09-01)

Why Were There So Few Female Painters in Silesia during the Baroque Period?
by: Andrzej Kozieł, et al.
Published: (2023-07-01)

Why were so few randomized trials of public health and social measures conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic? The Norwegian experience
by: Atle Fretheim, et al.
Published: (2024-10-01)

Why does Ukrainian economy grow so slowly?
by: Viktoriya Palekhova
Published: (2021-03-01)

Why Does So Matter to Be a Dead Person?
by: A. V. Nekhaev
Published: (2021-09-01)

Why so Few, Still? Challenges to Attracting, Advancing, and Keeping Women Faculty of Color in Academia
by: Jean E. Fox Tree, et al.
Published: (2022-01-01)

So many questions, so few answers
Published: (2010-08-01)

Why so Many Patients With Dysphagia Have Normal Esophageal Function Testing
by: Ravinder K. Mittal, et al.
Published: (2024-01-01)

The Psychodynamics of Media Violence: Why do We Always Have so Little?!
by: Irena Praskač-Salčin, et al.
Published: (2024-12-01)

Why so few Ps become As: The character, choices and challenges of South Africa’s most talented young researchers
by: Jonathan Jansen, et al.
Published: (2024-03-01)

Why does my child have such a fate?
Published: (2005-08-01)

Well-versed? If Novels in Verse Are So Accessible, Why Don’t We Have More?
by: Tia Fisher
Published: (2023-12-01)

Well-versed? If Novels in Verse Are So Accessible, Why Don’t We Have More?
by: Tia Fisher
Published: (2024-01-01)

Why does it take so long? The reasons behind tuberculosis treatment delay in Portugal
by: I. Zão, et al.
Published: (2019-07-01)

Why does it take so long? The reasons behind tuberculosis treatment delay in Portugal
by: I. Zão, et al.
Published: (2019-07-01)

Why so Slow?
by: Jasna Podreka
Published: (2024-09-01)

Why so many doses, and why now?
by: S Bilgic, et al.
Published: (2025-06-01)

Why so few expert women in the water sector? Masculinity, race, sex, and policy narratives of technology, gender and development in Nepal
by: Janwillem Liebrand
Published: (2023-07-01)

Why does the sepsis induced by severe COVID-19 have different clinical features from sepsis induced by CrKP?
by: Hong-Yuan Lin
Published: (2022-01-01)

Why are different estimates of the effective reproductive number so different? A case study on COVID-19 in Germany.
by: Elisabeth K Brockhaus, et al.
Published: (2023-11-01)

Why does the m6A writer complex require so many proteins?
by: Kiran Pandey, et al.
Published: (2025-09-01)

Does COVID-19 Affect Farmland Prices? How and Why?
by: Brian Lee, et al.
Published: (2022-12-01)

Why are retractions so difficult?
by: Elizabeth Wager
Published: (2015-02-01)

Why is economics so fragile?
by: José Castro Caldas, et al.
Published: (2011-06-01)

Why So Much Talk?
by: Susan Docherty
Published: (2023-08-01)

Why Are Labour-Intensive Factories Surviving in Japan? A Case Study of Apparel Sewing SMEs in the North Iwate
by: Fusanori Iwasaki, et al.
Published: (2025-04-01)

Why Does Non‐Photosynthetic Monotropastrum humile (Ericaceae) Have Scale Leaves?
by: Shiori Harada, et al.
Published: (2025-06-01)

Shaping integrity: why generative artificial intelligence does not have to undermine education
by: Myles Joshua Toledo Tan, et al.
Published: (2024-10-01)

FIRES IN BRAZILIAN AMAZON: WHY DOES POLICY HAVE A LIMITED IMPACT?
by: THIAGO FONSECA-MORELLO, et al.
Published: (2017-12-01)

Response to letter: ‘why so many doses, and why now?’
by: Michaela Kuhlen, et al.
Published: (2025-06-01)

Promising Technosciences in the Economy of Attention: Why Have Pessimistic Stories of Disruption and “Artificial Intelligence” Performed so Well?
by: Marc Audétat
Published: (2023-02-01)

How do bacterial endosymbionts work with so few genes?
by: John P McCutcheon, et al.
Published: (2024-04-01)