Last year the Japanese were congratulating themselves (as they love to do about anything) talking about how English has many more aspirated [p] sounds than Japanese does and how this was spreading covid. More than a millennium ago, Japanese had many more P's, but they changed to F sounds (just like Greek phi did; the spelling of the name of the letter shows how it was once pronounced) and then later to H. (This is why the name of the nation of Japan can be either 'Nippon' or 'Nihon'.)

It was stupid self-congratulatory nonsense and I wonder why English is singled out as the super-spreader language when there are lots of language with aspirated sounds. Chinese certainly has them, right Mister Hsi Chin-p'ing?