The Koshu Valley borders the world’s largest metropolitan area. What can a community of grape farmers teach us about how Japan, a country of 126 million and the oldest population in the world, has so far kept coronavirus at bay? Is the country’s achievement to be put down to luck and resigned to the annals of mysterious contradictions that so often characterise Japan, or has the whole been held together by the sum of its extra fail-safe parts, enabling success to seem effortless?

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