Further to @Creativerealms ‘s comment, Japan has indeed been able to control it.
Japan population 126.5m. Deaths from COVID-19 1,721. Percentage of deaths 0.00136.
USA (quotee’s home country) population 328.2m. Deaths from COVID-19 226,000. Percentage of deaths 0.06886 - that’s FIFTY times as many, statistically speaking.
UK, for reference purposes: 66.6m, 45,365, 0.06811% - about the same as the USA.