Unsubstantiated information: Tokyo’s Yamanote railway line...
A photo of a display monitor on Japan Railways’ Yamanote line with the caption “[GOOD NEWS] The Yamanote Line no longer displays the names of stations in Chines...
Unfounded: The man who won the Nobel Prize for developing ...
“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...
Unsubstantiated information：The main chemical blamed in th...
An article with the headline “The chemical ingredients behind the Lebanon blast – ammonium nitrate – had been imported from South Korea in 2015” was posted on A...
Unsubstantiated information: German high schools get free ...
A tweet claiming “German high schools are offering free saliva tests for the novel coronavirus twice a week,” posted on August 6th was retweeted over 2,900 time...
Cross-border misinformation: Mystery Seeds Shipped from Ch...
From June to July, there have been a number of cases overseas and in Japan where seeds of unknown plants were delivered in unidentified packages purportedly fro...
False: Tokyo infection figures can’t exceed 300 people per...
A posting on Chinese social media network Weibo first seen on July 22 claimed “(At the Tokyo Metropolitan government) there are only two fax machines made avail...
Cross-border misinformation: Video explaining how Apple’s ...
On July 26, a Japanese tweet sharing a video posted by a user from outside of Japan claimed that the video was “Apple’s AR glasses concept”. This tweet went vir...
Cross-border misinformation: President of Ghana reveals a ...
On July 20, a Japanese blog titled “President of Ghana reveals Rockefeller Foundation’s planning document” went viral with up to 1,700 retweets on Twitter.
Cross-border misinformation: Herbicide is the cause behind...
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 an...