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Sep 4, 2020 Fact-checks Yagi

Cross-border misinformation: Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missiles at Chinese fighter jets

  By Rei Ofuna (InFact) A YouTube video titled in Japanese “Taiwanese military fires anti-aircraft missil…

Sep 4, 2020 Other rumors Yagi

Unsubstantiated information: COVID-19 patients in Fukuoka and Gunma commit suicide after suffering abuse

  By Rei Ofuna (InFact) Several posts have been surfacing claiming that a few COVID-19 patients and their…

Aug 28, 2020 Weekly Report okamoto

Weekly Fact-checks: Photos of a Japanese highway circulating as being under construction in Cebu, Philippines

Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.

Aug 27, 2020 Fact-checks okamoto

Unsubstantiated information: Tokyo’s Yamanote railway line stopped displaying Chinese and Korean signage

A photo of a display monitor on Japan Railways’ Yamanote line with the caption “[GOOD NEWS] The Yamanote…

Aug 21, 2020 Weekly Report okamoto

Weekly Fact-checks: An image with false caption of Japanese officials bowing goes viral

Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.

Aug 20, 2020 Other rumors okamoto

Unfounded: The man who won the Nobel Prize for developing the PCR methods says, ‘It’s not fit to identify viruses’

Fact-check by InFact

Aug 20, 2020 Fact-checks okamoto

Unsubstantiated information:The main chemical blamed in the blast that rocked the Lebanese capital had been imported from South Korea

An article with the headline “The chemical ingredients behind the Lebanon blast – ammonium nitrate…

Aug 20, 2020 Other rumors okamoto

Unsubstantiated information: German high schools get free tests for the novel coronavirus twice a week

A tweet claiming “German high schools are offering free saliva tests for the novel coronavirus twice a w…

Aug 18, 2020 Fact-checks okamoto

Cross-border misinformation: Mystery Seeds Shipped from China are Giant Hogweed

From June to July, there have been a number of cases overseas and in Japan where seeds of unknown plants were …

Aug 14, 2020 Weekly Report okamoto

Japan Fact-checks: Misinformation can unwittingly spread overseas

Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.

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