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• 1,011 comments 2026-08-04 COVID in a Kumamoto Shelter: Why Disaster-Prone Japan Still Sleeps on Gym Floors A COVID case hit a Kumamoto quake shelter with no partitions, one isolation room, and 8,000+ evacuees. Japan's comment section is angry — but not at whom you'd expect.
• 7,805 comments 2026-08-04 "Where's the funding?" — 7,805 Japanese comments ask why that is their problem An LDP lawmaker opposed a temporary food tax cut, warning the bill would fall on the next generation. The comment thread counted 7,805 — and the anger was not about the tax cut at all.