James Corbett, welcome to the show. Thank you very much.

Thank you for having me on. Pleasure to be here.

First thing I wanted to ask, okay, I think, I don't believe I have to give my audience an introduction as to who you are.

I think everybody knows James Corbett show. You do amazing work.

I think that if you never did anything about, except your big oil documentary, you probably

contributed more to American history and exposing American history than anyone out there.

So anyone who's teaching in a university or anywhere.

So I'm going to link to that.

I'm going to link to your. I'm going to link to your

channel. I think it's just invaluable reporting. So, but what I wanted to start with is you're,

you're in Japan. We've heard that the numbers in Japan are lower than anywhere else that

Japan's not even taking this as a pandemic.

What's going on there?

Well, so I did a video last week that people might want to check out.

It's called How is Japan reacting to the crisis?

And in that video, I showed people precisely what is happening on the streets

of Japan, at least at that point, about a week or so ago. And basically the point of that

was to say, yeah, Japan is not freaking out about this crisis or whatever it is that's unfolding.

And I showed that everyone's going about their day-to-day business. There's no social distancing. There's no closures of businesses or anything of that sort.

Or at least there wasn't at that time. But I did say in that video, it is precisely because it

suits the government's incentives. The government's bread is buttered on the side of

pretending that the Tokyo

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