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Students and young professionals say government communication has failed to be empathetic to their situation and is unconvincing.

Young People Spreading Covid a Concern in Rapidly Aging Japan Bloomberg 1/28/2021 Shiho Takezawa and Marika Katanuma (Bloomberg) -- The world’s most rapidly aging society has long struggled to talk to its youth. That’s a disconnect that’s turning deadly in the pandemic. The difficulty in persuading young adults to upend their lifestyles to prevent Covid-19’s spread has challenged countries across the globe. Yet nowhere are the stakes higher than in Japan, where nearly a third of residents are over the age of 65, and the virus response depends on voluntary cooperation...

Young People Spreading Covid a Concern in Rapidly Aging Japan Bloomberg 1/28/2021 Shiho Takezawa and Marika Katanuma (Bloomberg) -- The world’s most rapidly aging society has long struggled to talk to its youth. That’s a disconnect that’s turning deadly in the pandemic. The difficulty in persuading young adults to upend their lifestyles to prevent Covid-19’s spread has challenged countries across the globe. Yet nowhere are the stakes higher than in Japan, where nearly a third of residents are over the age of 65, and the virus response depends on voluntary cooperation...

Dec 31, 2020 Many of Japan’s weekly magazines typically publish double issues from the last week in December in order to give staff some time off. Such issues can easily be identified by logos, banners or trim on their covers that appear in gold, although three magazines — Aera, Sunday Mainichi and Friday — have abstained from the practice this year. From looking at the magazines’ contents, you’d never have guessed what a crazy year 2020 has been. However, with many station kiosks closed due to the pandemic, I suspect that their newsstand sales and ad revenues almost certai...