Did Japan just beat the coronavirus without lockdowns or mass testing?

日本是否在为封城或进行大规模检测的情况下控制住了疫情?

TOKYO: Japan on Monday lifted state of emergency with new cases of the coronavirus dwindling to mere dozens. It got there despite largely ignoring the default playbook.

东京：随着新增病例减少到几十例，周一日本宣布解除全国紧急状态。日本成功控制住了疫情，而这个控制在很大程度上没遵循默认的防疫措施。

No restrictions were placed on residents' movements, and businesses from restaurants to hairdressers stayed open. No high-tech apps that tracked people's movements were deployed. The country doesn't have a center for disease control. And even as nations were exhorted to "test, test, test," Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population — one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

日本居民的出行没有受到限制，商家都照常营业，从餐馆到发廊皆是。日本没有让民众安装任何追踪出行轨迹的APP。日本没有疾病控制中心。就在各国一再被劝告要多做“检测”的时候，日本只检测了0.2%的人口——在发达国家中，是比率最低的国家之一。

Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the Group of Seven developed nations. In Tokyo, its dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days. While the possibility of a more severe second wave of infection is ever-present, Japan has entered and is set to leave its emergency in just weeks, with the status lifted already for most of the country and Tokyo and the remaining four other regions set to ext Monday.

然而，日本的增长曲线已经趋平，死亡人数远低于1000人，是G7集团中死亡人数最少的国家。在人口稠密的东京，确诊病例基本上每天都降到了个位数。虽然出现更严重的第二波感染的可能性一直存在，但日本将在几周内解除紧急状态，该国大部分地区的紧急状态已经解除，东京和其他四个地区将于周一解除紧急状态。

Analyzing just how Japan defied the odds and contained the virus while disregarding the playbook used by other successful countries has become a national conversation. Only one thing is agreed upon: that there was no silver bullet, no one factor that made the difference.

分析日本如何在无视其他成功国家的做法的情况下，克服困难，遏制住疫情，已经成为一场全国性的讨论。只有一点是大家都同意的：没有什么良方，没有什么单一的因素造成了这种差异。

"Just by looking at death numbers, you can say Japan was successful," said Mikihito Tanaka, a professor at Waseda University specializing in science communication, and a member of a public advisory group of experts on the virus. "But even experts don't know the reason."

早稻田大学教授、新冠病毒公共顾问小组的成员田中密仁表示：“单看死亡人数，你就可以说日本成功了。但即使是专家也不知道原因。”

印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Sa

Japanese are well know for self discipline. This what it need to defeat CORONA. This is no where exst in India

日本人以自律著称。这正是战胜新冠病毒所需要的，而印度人恰恰不自律。

Amit Ghosh

Japenese people are very disciplined and honest unlike Indias who are indisciplined and are poor. Plus huge population makes things worse for india.

日本人非常自律、非常诚实，不像印度人，又穷又不自律。再加上印度人口庞大，情况就更糟糕了。

Hasan Ali

usa Brazil India and Russia will fail eventually......blindly following ......without thinking .....Japan south korea Germany Sweden new zealand all use innovative and different ideas...... lockdown can only help us buy time ...it is not the final solution

在控制疫情方面，不盲目追随，

美国、巴西、印度和俄罗斯最终会失败的……日本、韩国、德国、瑞、典新西兰采取了不同的办法，封城只能帮我们争取时间，不是最终的解决方案

Jose Indian

japanese have long life's......span .. true

日本人的寿命很长

Abdul Qadeer

Japan peoples Work more talk less like Manmohan Singh

日本人说得少，做得多，就像曼莫汉·辛格一样

Sudarshan Krishna

India cannot do it without a lockdown. Indians do not have the kind of discipline the japnese have. Here people like to spit on roads, break signal, no lane culture, the worst behaved in flights, poor hygeine, loud as hell, and zero respect for rules. Worst than animals to be honest. So what else is the way to control the virus in india?

不封城的话，印度控制不住疫情的。印度人没有日本人那么自律。在印度，人们喜欢在马路上吐痰、闯红灯、不讲卫生，而且无视规定。老实说，比动物还糟糕。那么，还有什么办法可以控制印度的疫情呢?

Timus

Japan is a disciplined nation.People there have habit of wearing masks regularly.

日本是一个纪律严明的国家。日本人有戴口罩的习惯。

Mithilesh Kumar

Japanese has literate population, people know how to take care against such disease, how to obey the Govt"s instruction. Japanese do not have problems of migrants moving to their home states like in India.

日本人受过良好教育，知道如何预防疾病，知道要服从政府的指示。日本没有民工问题，而印度有。

Kamal Kishore

Kind of population we have, nothing can be done here. Even GOD can't control this amount of population. Forget it.

印度人口庞大，做什么都无济于事。即使是神也控制不了这么多人，算了吧。

Hindustan

Amazing....may be the immunity of Japanese is quite high as compared to us or other nations

不可思议……也许日本人的免疫力比印度人或其他国家的人要强啊

subhash choudhary

JAPAN CAN DO THAT, PPL HAVE DISCIPLINE

日本人守纪律，所以日本能控制住疫情，

Rajeev Bansal

True.... Moreover, their country is not led by racists like India

没错....此外，日本不像印度是由种族主义者领导的

Abhishek Kumar

I still remember the Japanese fans cleaning the benches after their World Cup match in Russia. This shows how disciplined they are whereas we Indians are lazy scumbags and above all over population and poverty makes it impossible to control the pandemic

我还记得在俄罗斯世界杯比赛后，日本球迷清理座位的情景，他们多自律啊，而我们印度人很懒散，加上人口庞大、大部分人贫困潦倒，疫情根本无法控制。

aryan kapoor

Elect a clown expect a circus

选了一个小丑当总理，印度只能变成马戏团了

Velli souza

India is now in top 10 of Corona Virus infection. Overtaking Iran. This is an achievement for our central govt, isn't it? We had first cases in January in Kerala. What did we do, nothing.

印度的确诊人数超过了伊朗，位于全球第10。这是我们中央政府的一项成就，不是吗?1月份，在喀拉拉邦发现了首例病例，印度政府做了什么？什么都没做。

Pratap Rd

just kept everything open and virus dissappeared.

只要一切保持开放，病毒自然会消失。

Alien on a trip here

Japan has proved that Covid19 cannot survive in hygienic environment and lifestyle.

日本已经证明，新冠病毒无法在干净卫生的环境中生存。

Konda Mallanna

Dont compare Japan with us. They wear masks all the time plus see the cleanliness all around despite bein a thickly populated space crunch country.

不要拿日本和我们比。日本人有戴口罩的习惯，而且生活环境干净卫生。

Jagdeep Sharma

we can't compare Japanese society to indian society. Japanese are very law abiding and disciplined society who will follow rules and regulations to the end. indian society on the other hand is very diversified and follow rules only if they are forced to.

不能拿日本和印度比，日本人遵纪守法，他们会一直遵守规章制度。而印度社会非常多元化，人们只有在被迫的情况下才会遵守规定。

Tane

Japan is one amongst the most disciplined nation, they abide by the law and regulations they don't cry and protest foolishly, they acknowledged the fact it's a serious disease and acted unitedly

日本是最守纪律的国家之一，他们遵守法律法规，不会愚蠢地叫嚣抗疫，他们承认新冠肺炎是一种严重的疾病，并团结一致抗疫。

Ajaraj Bagwe

discipline is name of the game! which indians woefully lack.

自律是最重要的!

可悲的是，印度人正好缺这个。

Swatantrate Bhagawati

Japanese people are honest and disciplined.

日本人诚实自律。

Pradeep Kumar C K

In Japan, people are well disciplined unlike other countries. They will give shoulder to shoulder to government policies whenever country is in difficulty. They come out from any kind of difficult situation very fast.

与其他国家不同的是，日本人纪律严明。每当国家遇到困难时，他们都会遵循政府的指示，能从任何困境中走出来。

Bharat

Their leadership have vision unlike ours.

他们的领导人有远见，不像我们的领导人鼠目寸光

Mudi Ji

Japanese are the most disciplined and hygienic people in the world that's why.

日本人是世界上最守纪律、最讲卫生的人，这就是原因。