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It is already widely known that the novel coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan, China. U.S. President Trump sometimes refers to it as the “Wuhan virus” or something similar to emphasize that it came from China. …Read More
While national media reported Biden’s victory on November 7, President Trump refused to concede Biden’s victory, claiming the election was rigged. …Read More
“The Nobel Prize winner who developed the PCR method says that it is not fit to identify the virus,” Kunihiko Takeda, a Designated Professor at Chubu University, said on July 24 on the widely watched internet TV “Toranomon News”. …Read More
A photo of a deer covered in tumors with a caption claiming it had eaten plants and trees sprayed with Monsanto’s Roundup was posted in Japanese on July 19th and immediately went viral on Twitter. …Read More
A twitter post purportedly showing that the WHO said that coronavirus patients require neither quarantine nor social distancing because “It cannot even transmit from one patient to another” was posted on July 4, and went viral, being retweeted over 2,800 times. …Read More
Minister of Finance Taro Aso told parliament on June 4 that Japan has fewer COVID-19 deaths than other countries because Japanese people have higher moral standards and had obeyed the government’s more lenient requests for self-restraint despite there being no penalties. …Read More
Professor Harue Okada of Hakuo University said on TV Asahi’s popular TV program “Morning Show,” on May 19, 2010 that the new coronavirus is sensitive to high temperatures, high humidity and UV light, so it will come under control in the summer. However this claim is misleading. …Read More
At a press conference on May 4, Dr. Shigeru Omi, deputy chairman of the Japanese government expert panel on the Covid-19 response said that while the number of PCR tests in Japan were low, in nations with more PCR tests the number of deaths were higher. This statement, however, is false. …Read More
Fabricated information claiming that Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University and awardee of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tasuku Honjo has purportedly said that the novel coronavirus was artificially created in a Chinese laboratory has spread widely in India and in other parts of the world. …Read More
U.S. broadcaster CBS reported on April 4th that “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would need to declare a national emergency to give the governors of Japan’s 47 prefectures the power to implement mandatory lockdowns, if deemed necessary.” However this claim is false. …Read More