Why Asia fares better than Europe in the pandemic: the secret is in civility

Asked how Japan has been able to combat the pandemic so successfully compared to the West, the nationalist-minded Japanese Minister of Economy Taro Aso answered concisely with the word

, which literally means "level of the people."

The term is still problematic, since in Japan it is also used to indicate its national superiority.

can be translated as "cultural level" ....

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