evidence: A viral message on social media claims that ‘Japan's professor of Physiology or Medicine’, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, while addressing the media said that coronavirus is "not natural and that China has manufactured it". [...] In an email interaction with The Quint, Kumar said "The news circulating regarding 'Prof Honjo's claim that coronavirus is man-made' is FAKE NEWS. Prof Honjo never gave any such statement. Each and every sentence of this post is completely false and has no connection with truth. Prof Honjo never worked in Wuhan laboratory. He never called there. He did not work on virus origin and functions and other related issues. All the contents are just concocted and nothing else. (sic)" Regarding Professor Tasuku Honjo’s recent media interaction, we found an article published by The Japan Times on 23 April that mentioned that the nobel laureate in a television program on 16 April said that Japan needs to increase PCR tests in order to detect coronavirus infections and and categorise the cases on the basis of seriousness of symptoms.