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Japanese TV stations reported lies that differed from the CDC's view.

Read: Internal CDC document on breakthrough infections - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/cdc-breakthrough-infections/94390e3a-5e45-44a5-ac40-2744e4e25f2e/ According to the CDC's internal report in the above article, it states the following Delta variant vaccine breakthrough cases may be as transmissible as unvaccinated cases However, the Japanese TV station NTV and other stations reported the following. According to CDC data, the risk of serious illness is reduced by a factor of 10 in people vaccinated against the delta strain. On the other hand, the risk of infection is only one-third. Comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated people across the U.S., the risk of unvaccinated people is eight times higher risk of infection, 25 times higher risk of hospitalization, and 25 times higher risk of death. It is easy to think of this report as intentionally providing false information to viewers, rather than misinformation.

I knew We needed to wear a mask even after the vaccination.

 In a previous article I wrote in May, I wrote that wearing a mask is necessary even after vaccination. It is a big lie that vaccinated people can wear no mask. https://blog.hozumin.com/2021/05/it-is-big-lie-that-vaccinated-people.html My prediction was correct, and the CDC has now issued a new opinion that vaccinated people need to wear masks as well. CDC recommends vaccinated people resume wearing masks indoors in some circumstances - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/27/cdc-masks-guidance-indoors/ Vaccines only prevent the onset of the disease, not the transmission of the disease to others, and as the number of vaccinated people increases, the number of people infected with coronaviruses will increase. The number of infected people in my country, Japan, has reached a record high. The vaccination rate in Japan is not high, but it seems as if the number of coronavirus infections is increasing in tandem with the increase in vaccinated people.

Japan will decline because it does not provide research budgets for doctoral programs in graduate schools.

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 The results of a survey by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) on the current income of doctoral students in Japan have been released. According to the results of the survey, 55% of doctoral students are engaged in research without pay. Also, only 10% of doctoral students earn more than 1.8 million yen per year. According to the news commentary, support should be given to young researchers, and it was pointed out that if this trend continues, there may be no more researchers born in Japan in the near future. Although the grade skipping system is not implemented in Japan, there was an outstanding student who made a special exception to go on to National Chiba University and became nationally famous. However, even after graduating from graduate school and earning his doctorate, it became difficult for him to continue his research because the government did not provide enough money to the university, and he eventually changed his job to driving a...

Japanese people are exceptionally free to change their names.

 Japanese names are written in kanji characters, but since there is no law in Japan regarding the reading of names , Japanese people are actually free to change the reading of their names without permission from the court. In fact, I changed the reading of my name without changing the kanji of my name. As a result, the Latin alphabetic notation of my name was changed , so internationally I succeeded in changing my real name without permission. As you know, the Japanese language uses multiple character systems. Japanese names are available in Japanese kanji , which are derived from Chinese characters, and in hiragana and katakana , which are phonetic characters . The English alphabet is of course commonly used in Japan, but it cannot be used for Japanese names . There are actually a huge number of kanji characters, but about 3,000 of them are permitted to be used in people's names. In Japan, there is a family register system in which people with Japanese citizenship have thei...

Exploring Japan on Foot is Deadly (Part1)

 The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed for a year, and even in the spring of 2021, it is still unclear whether or not they will be held. More to the point, everyone in the world, except the president of the IOC, believes that the Tokyo Olympics will not take place. Today's story is about the problems that began to be pointed out when the decision to hold the Olympics was made. This story begins at a time when no one imagined the possibility of the Olympics being cancelled. First of all, let me tell you a shocking fact. Studies have shown that about 90% of cars in Japan ignore pedestrians at crosswalks and pass them. This fact is common knowledge to Japanese people. Strictly speaking, Japanese people don't know that crosswalks are places where pedestrians can freely cross the street in the first place. First of all, let me explain about the daily scene of crosswalks in Japan. When pedestrians approach a crosswalk, they stop there. And check both sides of the road ...

To get a driver's license in Japan

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Sample image of a Japanese driver's license. The fields for all licenses are filled in. Even though there are 15 types of licenses, there are only 14 fields, so two types of towing licenses are listed together in one field. It is quite expensive to get a driver's license in Japan. It also takes about a month to get a driver's license even if you are a good driver, and several months or more if you are not a good driver. In Japan, it is not allowed for a person without a driver's license to practice driving on a real road with a licensed driver in the passenger seat. For this reason, there are many facilities with small courses that resemble roads, called driving schools , all over Japan. At the driving school, students take classes on traffic laws and practice driving on the course in the school's facilities, and those who pass each test get a provisional driver's license to practice driving on real roads. You can graduate from the driving school after practi...

It is a big lie that vaccinated people can wear no mask.

 There was once a man who explained the dangers of vaccines on a Japanese TV program in preparation for the government to stop broadcasting the program and refuse to allow him to appear on TV at all. Luckily, the program was aired on TV only once. At that time, there was an important commentary. He warned about the fact that vaccination would only prevent the onset of coronavirus symptoms and that vaccinees would become human weapons that could infect others in an asymptomatic state. Nonetheless, the US has declared that those who have been vaccinated can wear no mask after vaccination. It is true that the early corona pandemic was just a cold. So it was actually true that it didn't matter if everyone wore no masks. However, vaccinated people are different. The mouths of vaccinated people release spike proteins artificially produced by the vaccine, so if vaccinated people go out without masks, there will be a pandemic of mutated strains.