Lockdown, Telework, and Other Things Japan Can't Do (w/Rochelle Kopp)

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Abe's Declaration of a State of Emergency for Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and four other places besides Nagoya
• The road leading to that declaration, and the differences between western and Japanese modes of decision making.
• The lackluster approach to prevention efforts in Japan
• How Japan might be able to use its culture of shame to slow the spread of the Virus
• What the current pandemic has done to stereotypes of Japan as clean, polite, obedient, socially distant, responsible to a community, etc
• Why Japanese business culture doesn't lend itself to working from home
• Why Japan remains technologically outdated in terms of communication and data storage
• How everyone is spending their time in quasi lockdown
• The difference between the West and Japan in terms of people sharing their personal experience with the virus or testing.

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