Disaster caused by COVID and Japan’s society

Abstract

New Coronavirus which rampages all over the world also brought about more deaths in Japan than those of the Tohoku earthquake. Reading “Japan as No.1” by the American sociologist Ezra Vogel, I felt that Japan finally became one of the most advanced countries in the world. I kept that feeling since then so that I was surprised at the event of COVID that we do not have domestically developed vaccine, and neither remedy, against COVID. I suspect that it may be the counterattack of Coronavirus against human beings, with growing world population, which invade the sphere of nature by expanding their living sphere. We can say that Japan’s society manages to endure COVID by self-help and by public help, but we should get and keep the lesson from this experience for the coming advent of other viruses