I would add the general opacity that the government has become accustomed to over the previous decades. For a long time, the Japanese people (meaning voters) have behaved in a docile manner, in deference to political power and corporate will.
The LDP admin was able to push ahead with its optimistic projection that the COVID crisis will be taken care of by this time of year. Additionally, the LDP admin was able to curb experts to its will, so that mostly optimistic views were propagated in the mainstream media.
Additionally, there is a culture of power-friendly media that almost never frontally challenges politicians or corporations (i.e. sponsors). Dissent is expressed euphemistically if expressed at all. One exception is during a public outcry. The large media corporations may
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Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony music leader under fire for past bullying - The Mainichi mainichi.jp/english/articl…
*Since this article is still vague, I am offering some details garnered from reporting in Japanese. Source links to articles follow.
1) Oyamada Keigo, an internationally renowned rock musician, was announced to be the composer of the Olympics opening ceremony this week. But it had been known that Oyamada had, as a high school student, routinely tortured mentally disabled classmates with his friends.
2) The abuse included forcing the mentally disabled person to eat feces, locking him up in a closet, forcing him to disrobe and masturbate in public, performing "backdrop" wrestling throws on him, etc.