False: PCR test also detects common cold viruses
Kunihiko Takeda, a professor at Chubu University, said on YouTube: “PCR test is pointless as a test to detect Covid-19 as the PCR test detects not only the ‘Wuh...
False: A nurse who tested positive for the new coronavirus is at the source of a massive hospital-as...
According to Chinese mini-blog Weibo, which quoted a report by Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi around the end of April, 120 people were infected in two days in a ...
Misleading: The novel coronavirus has an aversion for high temperatures, high humidity and ultraviol...
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 t...
Inaccurate: Countries with more PCR tests have more deaths
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 ...
False: “Tokyo’s hospitals overwhelmed with bed utilization at 91% on May 11” though the numbers actu...
NHK reported on May 11 that hospitals in Tokyo were still overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients with hospital utilization rate at 91%. Reuters and other news agenc...
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...