For Japan specifically the impression I've gotten is that actually things are not great but the government is better at controlling the narrative (and benefits from a Western bias that everything about modern Japan is excessively efficient/competent)
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Also in Japan. The idea that things are 'secretly bad' but the government keeps it under wraps stopped being tenable around mid-April. Things genuinely got better, for reasons that remain far from clear.
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