Fabrication: Nobel laureate Dr. Honjo says “this virus is Chinese-made”
Fabricated information claiming that Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University and awardee of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tasuku Honjo has ...
Inaccurate: The US embassy in Japan warns “a collapse of the Japanese health care system is close at...
Claims that the U.S. embassy in Japan warned in a ‘Health Alert’ tweet on April 3rd of a collapse of the Japanese health care system in the near future was spre...
False: the Japanese state of emergency declaration “gives governors the power to implement mandatory...
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 ...
Fact Check: Hong Kong media reported “many passengers who left the Diamond Princess were preve...
Chinese media were reporting that Hong Kong passengers heading for Haneda to return home in a charter flight included passengers who had close contacts with inf...
Fabrication: Facebook post “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe staged his visit to survivors o...
A photo of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visiting a shelter in an area struck by Typhoon Hagibis (No.19 in Japan) on October 10th, 2019 was doctored to mislead view...
Fabrication: COVID-19 tweet pretending to be Defense Minisiter Kono spreads in Taiwan
A screengrab purporting to be a twitter post from Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono’s account on February 28 and saying in Japanese “500,000 masks have arriv...