TOKYO -- While former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has boasted about the success of "the Japan model" in controlling the spread of COVID-19 compared with what happened in the U.S. and many European countries, experts on Thursday submitted a report to current Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga suggesting that the outbreak could have been better handled.
Tokyo-based think tank Asia Pacific Initiative, known for its report of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, compiled a 466-page report on Japan's novel coronavirus response based on interviews with government officials.
