On March 22, 2020, a K-1 event was held at Saitama Super Arena with more than 6,000 spectators. This essay examines the danger of asymptomatic carriers, super-spreaders, and aerosol infection, while questioning the spread of infection in enclosed, crowded, close-contact spaces and the failure of Japanese television networks to fully report the aftermath.

April 20, 2020
This virus may be able to float in the air for quite a long time.
When people gather densely and come into close contact in an enclosed space such as a live music club, infection through aerosols may occur.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
A little after noon on March 23, I happened to be watching a Fuji Television wide show hosted by Yuko Ando.
It was broadcasting a truly appalling fact.
On March 22, K-1 was forcibly held at Saitama Super Arena, gathering more than 6,000 spectators.
Moreover, this was done in defiance of cancellation requests from Minister Nishimura and the governor of Saitama Prefecture.
The governor of Saitama, whose repeated requests had been ignored, was at the entrance area of the venue on that day, making one final appeal to the spectators.
The screen also showed a small standing bar in Tokyo where customers were shoulder to shoulder, and a packed restaurant where the space between seats was extremely narrow, something not at all rare in Tokyo.
I was truly appalled.
The other day, I found a painstaking work on the Internet.
It appeared to be written by a person who had retired from the Sankei Shimbun and was living in Britain, using his experience to publish interviews and write a blog online.
It was an interview article that began by saying that he had asked various questions to Professor Masayuki Miyasaka, an invited professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center of Osaka University and one of the leading authorities in immunology.
—In the case of the novel coronavirus, for how long do asymptomatic pathogen carriers actually carry it?
Mr. Miyasaka said, “Looking at the reports so far, in some long cases, it seems that people can continue to have infectious capability for about two weeks without developing symptoms.”
—On average, how many people is one infected person thought to infect?
Are there many super-spreaders among asymptomatic pathogen carriers?
Mr. Miyasaka said, “Until now, this virus has generally been thought to allow one infected person to infect about 2 to 2.5 people, but this differs depending on the degree of so-called social distancing. In Japan, at present, one person is infecting only about one person.”
“Also, super-spreaders who spread infection to many people are highly likely to be asymptomatic infected persons, but at present we do not know how frequently such people exist.”
Omitted.
Why are asymptomatic pathogen carriers so important?
Mr. Miyasaka said, “Because these people greatly spread infection without knowing it. A recent paper in Science estimated that, in the situation before the lockdown of Wuhan, 86% of the infections that occurred may have gone unnoticed, and that about 80% of the actually reported infections derived from such unnoticed infections.”
“In other words, asymptomatic infected persons are deeply involved in the spread of infection. At present, explosive infection spread is occurring in Italy and Spain. I believe this is because asymptomatic infected persons increased without anyone noticing, and those people spread the infection in no time.”
“The virus may be able to float in the air for quite a long time.”
—Why are clusters, groups of infected people, likely to occur in enclosed spaces such as the Diamond Princess, yakatabune boats, sports gyms, and live music clubs?
Is it because droplets containing the virus float in the air for a long time?
Mr. Miyasaka said, “Airborne infection is possible, but it is still not well understood. However, an American research group has already reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that this virus floats in the air attached to droplets, and especially to tiny droplets. According to that report, its concentration halves in about one hour and decreases to about one tenth in about three hours.”
“In other words, surprisingly, this virus seems to have the possibility of floating in the air for quite a long time. From this, I believe that when people gather densely and come into close contact in enclosed spaces such as yakatabune boats and live music clubs, infection through tiny droplets, that is, aerosols, may occur.”
On March 23, an expert appearing on the above Fuji Television talk show, judging from the above facts, presented a prediction chart showing a rapid increase in patients within two weeks.
Those numbers are exactly the same as the present situation.
However, not only NHK, needless to say, but even Fuji Television has not reported at all what happened afterward, namely the consequences brought about by the forced holding of K-1.
I feel that the host, Yurika Mita, is among the most outstanding female announcers, and I frequently watch late-night Live News α.
Even that Fuji Television does not report it.
The other day, when I woke up and thought perhaps so, it turned out exactly as I had suspected.
The people who forced the event to be held were connected with Chongryon.
Compared with K-1, the number of people in izakaya and other places is overwhelmingly small.
Those who went outdoors for cherry-blossom viewing were not such a great problem either.
In other words, the forced holding of K-1 created the present situation.
It created, all at once, more than 6,000 asymptomatic infected persons, that is, super-spreaders.
Why did the organizers, Chongryon, ignore not only the repeated cancellation requests from the governor of Saitama Prefecture, but also the request from Minister Nishimura, and force the event to be held?
One reason is that they took advantage of the defects in the Constitution of Japan, which they have been using throughout the postwar period.
The Japanese people must understand that the present Constitution contains grave defects, and must revise it as soon as possible.
The other reason is my inference.
For them, made up of anti-Japanese thought, Japan’s situation was not amusing.
In Daegu, South Korea, a cheap, pseudo-Christian, new religious group peculiar to South Korea was the cause of the sudden increase in infected people.
On February 9 and February 16, when one infected woman visited the church, there were more than 1,000 believers present on each occasion.
Their manner of raising loud voices, wailing, and touching one another created the overshoot in South Korea.
There is no way that the people who forced K-1 to be held, namely Chongryon, did not know this.
They wanted to drag Japan down to the same level as South Korea.
And on top of that, they wanted to make a large amount of money.
No one can say that such a thought did not exist in their minds.
All the more because, on March 22, the forced holding of the event with more than 6,000 people gathered was actually carried out.
There is another point.
The media do not report at all on the homeland of those connected with Chongryon.
However, Tsutomu Nishioka, who as a scholar had continued from the beginning to point out that the Asahi Shimbun’s fabricated comfort women reporting was wrong, taught us in the Sankei Shimbun and in monthly magazines that North Korea too had many infected people and many deaths, and was in a tragic situation.
Tsutomu Nishioka taught us that Song Duhoe and someone named Aoyagi began the matter by placing an advertisement or something similar in Asahi Journal.
Aoyagi went to South Korea and, in line with their fabrication, actually recruited people.
Almost no one came forward, but Jeong Ok Yun and Soon-im Yang, the organizers of the Korean Council, who are widely known to be North Korean spies, and the latter the mother-in-law of Takashi Uemura, jumped at it.
Mizuho Fukushima of Japan, then a lawyer, Kenichi Takagi, Yuichi Kaido, and others also jumped at it, and filed claims for damages against the Japanese government.
He taught us these facts.
Thankfully, I learned these facts instantly on the Internet.
The Chongryon-related people who forced K-1 to be held could not tolerate the fact that Japan alone had an overwhelmingly low number of infected people and was an honor student of the world.
They wanted to drop Japan into the same abyss as the Korean Peninsula, their homeland.
There was no material more convenient than the K-1 event.
Because the Constitution of Japan contains grave defects, there was no possibility whatsoever that they would be punished.
Moreover, it was a rare opportunity to earn a large amount of money and to drop the Japanese people into the same abyss as the Korean Peninsula.
In other words, for them, it is no exaggeration at all to say that there could have been no more convenient act of terror.
What proves the correctness of my inference is the fact that, after March 23, the Japanese mass media, especially television stations beginning with NHK, have not reported at all that the present situation is the consequence of the forced holding of K-1.
Why do they not report it?
For people with eyes to see, various causal relationships should instantly come to mind.