Japenese people are also very nationalistic. They're just very protective of their culture, and are quite homogeneous as a nation. They have pretty strict immigration laws.
Plus Japan used some pretty draconian methods to slow the spread. Same with South Korea, where they literally doxxed people who were sick. Meanwhile my county won't even tell you the last 10 places the sick people were.
It all comes down to how things were handled. Like those asking about India, well they just aren't testing like we are. Nowhere close. Truth is things are probably not so good there, or they're still in the early phase of the spread
Japenese people are also very nationalistic. They're just very protective of their culture, and are quite homogeneous as a nation. They have pretty strict immigration laws.
Plus Japan used some pretty draconian methods to slow the spread. Same with South Korea, where they literally doxxed people who were sick. Meanwhile my county won't even tell you the last 10 places the sick people were.
It all comes down to how things were handled. Like those asking about India, well they just aren't testing like we are. Nowhere close. Truth is things are probably not so good there, or they're still in the early phase of the spread