The Pope has stated he will not stay in the Vatican nor return to Argentina when the time comes to retire. Pope Francis ruled out the possibility of staying in the Vatican or returning to .
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People ask what is wrong with Japan
A hapless response to the coronavirus pandemic belies Japan s reputation for efficiency
Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikuru tells the story of Kanji Watanabe, a typical Japanese bureaucrat doing his typically bureaucratic chore maintaining the bureaucracy while doing nothing. (Photo: akirakurosawa.info)
As international media publicize Japan’s inept response to the Covid-19 pandemic, friends ask me how that could be. After all, isn’t Japan supposed to be a model of efficiency?
Yet Japan has the lowest vaccination rate among wealthy nations, with fewer than 4 percent of its 126 million people inoculated so far.