Agree with Jason. I have lived in Japan for 39 years now, and few of my Japanese friends have been tested. That being said, that could be just as much for ineptitude as for insight among leaders ... Hanlon's Razor.
Just a guess, but there is probably a high correlation between economic conditions of a country, other techniques used by power mongers to lead to an authoritarian corporate-state as is modeled by China, and a 'dangerous virus suddenly popping up and sweeping the country'. Even more than the U.S., Australia is the test case for how well accountants will determine the necessity for lockdowns and hollowing out of the middle class.
Was just listening to NHK 'news' today ... and I use that word loosely because Japan's Freedom of Press ranking is ranked even lower than the propaganda model of Anglo Corporate 'journalism' ... but the country is reporting an uptick in the questionably dangerous omicron variant, resulting in hospitalization for even asymptomatic carriers.
Now let's get this straight. People who may have remnants of a virus that produces symptoms similar to the common cold, even if they have NO symptoms, are now slowly being hospitalized, with 'experts' hinting that NPIs (non pharmaceutical interventions such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, etc.) may have to be reconsidered to prevent the overcrowding of hospitals — a hint that a 'dark winter' might be approaching Japan.
Just my cynical guess, but the managers of the corporate nation-state of Japan, are using the plandemic as one of several financial strategies and breaks leading to the same authoritarian model as China's social credit system.
Some of those strategies include:
1 — printing of emergency fiat currency which will first go to the big players who buy up real, natural assets before the total money supply is deflated. There is an 'unexpectedly' big market now for luxury goods such as boats, land, and bug-out cottages outside the major metropolitan areas ... among the increasingly wealthy stock holders, while the working class is finding basic food items, utilities, and rent pushing the limits of their monthly take home.
2 — discount incentives to go to digital cash ... paying for everything from commuter tickets to convenience store goods
3 — discount incentives and 'bureaucratic streamlining' incentives to consolidate personal information into a single number ... now termed 'My Number'. The trend is to consolidate everything from bank accounts to health insurance numbers to pension numbers to drivers' licenses into one centralized number surveilled by the corporate nature state, but opaque to the citizens.
4 — the continued push for biometric data as a personal I.D. ... from fingerprints to facial recognition and the A.I. and hardware to handle it. Slow, but 5G is coming.
5 — the strategic use of an already builit-in neo-Confucian mind-set that is not a meritocracy, but credentialism at best, and more likely to be the same cronyism and nepotism you will see in the West. Though not as famous as Chomsky and Herman's 'Manufacturing Consent', a good Japanese bookend is a collection of academic essays edited by Stephen Vlastos ... 'Invented Traditions of Modern Japan' ... alas only available as a paperback. And yes, a lot of 'traditions' that served the system in general and ruling elite in particular, were bluntly and easily manufactured. Traditions are easier to manufacture than consent in Japan because Japan has never had a bottom up revolution resulting in the same ideals of freedom and individualism similar to the French or American revolution, or the earlier British Magna Carta.
All of this is leading to the same panopticon being pushed by Western 'democracies', but with a more compliant society. Nearly everyone wears masks so as to not upset others, stand out from the crowd, or as virtue signaling to avoid losing face ... that all important social currency in the work place. Street demonstrations are arranged ahead of time with an agreement between organizers and city managers so as to not create a nuisance for the smooth flow of business as usual ... thus turning demonstrations into Kabuki show costume parades as a parody of European demonstrations.
Still, if you look through the Japanese versions of Twitter, Yahoo, and other social media ... you will see that a large number of Japanese trust their national government about as much as European and American counterparts. The language barrier and tight control of the media only make Japan appear to be 'a miracle'.
JMHO opinion, from one Steve to another.