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Japan By River Cruise
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Bonus
Episode 30
Season 1
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- Why Japan remains technologically outdated in terms of communication and data storage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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