A few thoughts related to why the Virus Bomb didn’t go off in Tokyo in spring 2020
Published 3 January 2025. Minor edits and revisions 15 February 2026
It’s January, a month that begins with J – like Japan.
Japan’s biggest city, Tokyo, is also the most populous in the world (~14 million).
I’ve never been to Tokyo. My husband has, however, and his description, the picture of the city above, and basic demographic information permit me to conclude there are a lot of people there who live fairly close together.
It’s also not far from China.
Despite being close to China and having all of those people, unlike New York City, Tokyo saw no virus bomb in spring 2020. By March 27th, only 243 confirmed cases were recorded, compared to 26,697 cases in New York.12
The late John McAfee thought the discrepancy between “Covid deaths” in New York and Tokyo was “fishy”. I do too.3 Tokyo apparently enacted a “soft” lockdown, with closures and requests to stay home, but McAfee.is correct that it was not doing all that New York was doing. My read of different studies indicates that New York’s “emergency” launch included testing existing hospital patients and staff, whereas Tokyo’s did not.
Japan announced its first positive test for 2019-nCoV (SARS-CoV-2) very early: 15 January 2020.³ The patient was a man in his 30s, which comes as no surprise since *Younger Man With Unremarkable Respiratory Illness Symptoms* was the prototypical Patient 1 in many countries, including China, the U.S., UK, Germany, South Africa, and Italy.
Japan Man was a resident of the Kanagawa Prefecture, just south of Tokyo. The proximity makes it pretty strange that an alleged “fast-spreading” pathogen didn’t head northward, but the US Navy maintains a fleet in Yogasuka, so perhaps they helped keep the virus at bay?
The capital of Kanagawa is Yokohama, the second most-populous city in Japan and likewise not the site of a spring 2020 Virus Bomb. Yokohama is also the port from which the Diamond Princess cruise ship departed and returned.
In case you missed it, there was no illness outbreak on the Diamond Princess during it’s scheduled voyage. The fiasco of quarantining the ship and blaming subsequent iatrogenic deaths on a coronavirus constituted a staged event, in my opinion, replete with opportunities to test testing, test drugs, and test the public’s tolerance for the notion of a disease coming soon to a city near them.4
Like many nations surrounded by water, Japan didn’t report excess mortality in 2020. The following year was also rather quiet. I trust no country’s curve; those who’ve followed the nation’s data, policies, and shot deployment are better-positioned to hypothesize about the overall trend (shown below in weekly increments).
My interest is Japan’s role in the early 2020 storyline and how it was cast as “Compliant Asian Island Nation Doing the Right Thing.” Masking is acculturated, their reputation for it well-known, and the “good example” they set critical to persuading citizens of other countries that masks might work. If Japan can’t control “spread,” then no one can.
A Virus Bomb can’t look like it went off in Tokyo or Yokohama, because it risks the global audience believing control of the Villainous Pathogen is possible.
More importantly, I seriously doubt a screen-based New York-like event could be successfully executed in a country known for the two biggest bombs to detonate on planet Earth.
Too many people would call the bluff.
- Kuwahara, Keisuke, et al. “Early Cases of COVID-19 in Tokyo and Occupational Health.” Global Health & Medicine, vol. 2, no. 2, 2020, pp. 118–122, doi:10.35772/ghm.2020.01041. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7731096/#T1
↩︎ - “Latest Developments in the Coronavirus Pandemic for March 27, 2020.” FOX 5 New York, 27 Mar. 2020, www.fox5ny.com/news/latest-developments-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-for-march-27-2020.
↩︎ - I also think it’s fishy that NYC was saying by 25 April 2020 it had 11,000 COVID deaths and the final number of deaths that listed COVID-19 as underlying cause during the spring event was almost 20,000, which speaks to my assertion that the curve is fraudulent. ↩︎
- By “staged,” I mean set-up or presented in the moment or ex post facto to look like something other than what it actually is or was. ↩︎
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