• Customers toast through plastic partitions at Kichiri, a pub in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, where seats are divided with plastic partitions and dishes delivered with plastic covers. | AP
    Customers toast through plastic partitions at Kichiri, a pub in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, where seats are divided with plastic partitions and dishes delivered with plastic covers. | AP
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One of the key architects of Japan’s coronavirus strategy has hailed the country’s response to the pandemic, saying its approach was more effective than those implemented by Western nations.

"Data clearly indicates that the measures taken by Japan have been more effective than those taken in Western countries,” Hitoshi Oshitani, a professor of virology at Tohoku University and a member of the expert panel advising the government, said in an interview with Diplomacy, a journal published by the country’s Foreign Ministry.

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