We did not have mandatory lockdowns.
Semantics. As if the Japanese people were roaming freely.
Just boasting of maximum tyranny aka compliance with no push back as if the rest of the world got it wrong by not being tyrannical enough.
All it takes is two working eyeballs. The distributions of most oppressive vs least oppressive are extremely similar. Stockholm vs Tokyo-such a different approach is expected to produce a radically different outcome, not render almost exactly the same results.