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Japan Wakes up to Vaccine Vassalage
Mar. 3rd, 2023 12:12 pmJapan Wakes up to Vaccine Vassalage
by Patricia Ormsby
Recently, reports have started appearing in the Japanese press on vaccine-related injuries and fatalities. Below I summarize the history, context and current situation regarding COVID vaccination in Japan, then discuss possible ramifications in light of international events.
A Love of Science
Japan was initially slow to start vaccinating its citizens against the corona virus, taking a more cautious approach than many countries. This, I believe, reflects a relatively high level of scientific knowledge among its citizens, due to the strong focus on science in their primary education. They are more likely to recognize that not everyone needs to be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity,” for example, and that the primary purpose of vaccination is directly to protect the individual receiving the vaccine from the disease. Japan has all along taken a conservative stance with vaccination overall, adopting a more modest vaccine schedule for its school children than America, and taking reports of adverse effects seriously (e.g., suspending HPV vaccination after reports of “diverse symptoms”).
Moderate Response, Cautious Approach
At no time during the pandemic nor in living memory has Japan “locked down” its citizens. In response to the spread of the corona virus, it relied on exhortations to “stay home,” combined with social pressure. This functions well in Japan, and this time was no exception. A mere exhortation can be overkill. For example, my Japanese relatives have given up all unessential travel, even within Japan for events and activities that they used to enjoy, and they might never feel okay about travelling again. That’s how powerful a force social pressure is in Japanese society.
Thus despite not locking down, Japan fared reasonably well in the pandemic. I think another important factor is that they were in relatively good health to start with. This is a result of Japan’s notorious sexual inequality. Recently, the situation may be changing due to international (i.e., Western) pressure, and women who want a career may have more opportunities now, but at least until recently women were really encouraged to stay home and take care of their family, and that’s what they devoted themselves to, with their scientific education informing their choices.
I am not an insider to Japan’s medical system, but I imagine they were balancing analyses of the data coming out from various sources regarding the “warp speed” vaccines against political necessity. After hesitating a few months, Japan began vaccinating its medical personnel in April 2021. I am told the government never actually mandated it, but I have also heard from the people affected that their employer essentially required it, and they faced enormous pressure to accept it. Of course, many medical personnel welcomed the vaccinations.
Japan initiated mass inoculation with the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines around the time of the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, later adding AstraZeneca’s1, and it looked to me that they were responding to international economic pressure in the form of a recommendation against travel to Japan, right before the Olympics, due to an “uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreak.” At that time, cases were declining after a spike that followed the initial vaccinations of medical personnel. I note, one could have speculated that an influx of foreigners for the games plus summer vacation with urbanites visiting elderly relatives would cause another spike similar in amplitude to those coinciding with holidays in the preceding year and a half.
When Japan finally launched its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19, they ran TV advertisements proclaiming it was everyone’s “duty” to get vaccinated. The magic word had its desired effect, and Japan quickly achieved a very high inoculation rate among its citizens. The outcome was the highest spike yet in cases in July, extending into August 2021. That, in turn, was dwarfed by subsequent spikes in 2022. The cover of last week’s Shukan Post magazine featured a headline asking “Is it true that the more times you are vaccinated, the more likely you are to catch the corona virus?”
Japan’s vaccination campaign gave precedence to the elderly and worked its way down to teenagers within a few months. Somewhat fewer people in each lower age group complied. As of March 2022, roughly 98% of Japanese aged 80 and older were fully vaccinated, and about 75% of teenagers. Japan also began offering vaccination to infants and small children in October 2022.
Overall, as of Jan. 24, 2023, two-thirds of Japan’s citizens had also received a third dose. All in all, five doses have been made available to anyone wanting them, including the bivalent vaccine, but there have been few willing recipients for the latter. All of my nearest relatives and a number of my acquaintances are making no secret that they will not take any more boosters.
Truth and Consequences
At the beginning of Japan’s mass vaccination campaign, one retired friend who surfed the Internet avidly warned me and my husband of reports of fatalities among the early recipients of the vaccines. He declared he would not be vaccinated.
Others spoke up similarly. The media’s response was to pillory a few older women (cue “hysterical”) who were said to have been fooled by Internet rumors into thinking the shots were a bioweapon or a means of chipping. After that many people with valid concerns about the novel technology and hasty testing kept quiet, or faced hostility if they did speak up. The experimental program went forward with little resistance.
I have only tiptoed into Japan’s lively Internet culture, but I hear the anonymous 4chan forum originated there, and it gives you an example of the phenomenon as it exists in the context of Japanese society. I do not have a smartphone and like most people my age in Japan, I have little time between work and family duties. But I hear it is a free-for-all with a lot of unofficial information being shared and the people involved taking it seriously. A lot of what I’ve heard from users was unverifiable, and a good percent turned out to be false. (When the SMO began, for example, it was flooded with tales of Russian atrocities.)
Given the need for uniformity within Japanese society, and also given their experience with tyranny (gradually slipping out of living memory now), such anonymous forums can be an important pressure release valve here and a means of sharing important information that cannot be revealed in decent society. I would actually be surprised if we saw Japan’s authorities crack down on it the way that has happened in the US. They probably realize that a crackdown is only likely to make people less likely to trust official sources than they do now. (Japan recognized the “Streisand Effect” long before that lovely lady had her crisis.) Trust in the mainstream media and other authorities in Japan is still high, as we can see from the level of compliance with the call to vaccinate, but there is deep cultural recognition of a distinction between “official truth” (lies, but from mostly benevolent intent) and the underlying “real reality” (which would only make unnecessary waves if owned up to).
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work in a Confucian society. In practice, though, the official truth on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s website is, “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided. Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent. Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around (sic) you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.” The reality as Prof. Thorsten J. Pattberg has described in one of his articles last year is that the University of Tokyo required him to receive the vaccination, and when he hesitated to sign the consent form, the doctor went and signed it for him. Likewise, for the recently resumed “Big Cold Ablution” ceremony at a major shrine near Tokyo, the official word from the shrine was “masks optional,” but having lived here 38 years, I knew good and well what that really meant.
Freedom of Information
Prior to the Internet, publishers in Japan had little to fear from lawsuits, and they put out a stream of books on all sorts of highly controversial topics. The authorities simply ignored that for the most part, because the audience for these books was small and controversies revealed would be quickly forgotten with the next scandal. These books would hit the stands for a month or two and then go out of publication and disappear entirely. (It was through one such book that my husband was able to find a doctor to prescribe him insulin and coach him on the use, which he desperately needed—but that story would be an entire book by itself.)
The mainstream media in Japan have long been known to obey authority, which in turn is under the control of Western powers. The people of Japan by and large still believe the Western powers to be benevolent and beneficial. Nonetheless, if they really want to know what is going on, they turn to the weeklies, because that is where controversial matters get aired. 2 They are like Western tabloids in a lot of ways, but make a stronger attempt to present verifiable facts.
The covers and the contents of most are a gallimaufry of serious articles on hot topics, soft porn, sports and manga. The cover of the copy I’m holding of the February 4th issue of Shukan Gendai has a couple of semi-naked cuties at the top left; a line-up of women’s golf stars; “SEX” in bold letters in a title about a TV drama set in medieval Japan; a warning about smartphones causing blindness; several titles of articles (one on frightful side effects of acetaminophen) and a sumo wrestler blocking the publication’s name; a big yellow band below that saying, “’Her Heart Melted!’ Gruesome Vaccine Deaths”; a mob of hot titles below that in primary colors, the biggest of which at the center in black is “Anyone Can be 30 Again—Genki Checklist; and down at the bottom right, Tokyo’s mayor scratching her head in wonder.
Among the articles contained therein is the second in a series taking a serious look at corona vaccine fatalities in Japan. This has been a suppressed but widely known secret, hints of which have begun appearing even in Japan’s mainstream media recently. That the February 9 Yomiuri Shimbun, a mainstream daily with no reputation for addressing controversies, has advertisements on page 6 for the Josei Seven women’s weekly and Shukan Shincho conservative weekly (described in Wikipedia here), both of which prominently feature articles this week on vaccine deaths. So the scandal has really broken through the wall of silence to the public in Japan now.
The Shukan Gendai Article
Titled, “Active Duty Doctors and Nurses are Warning, Gruesome Reality of ‘Vaccine Deaths’ Testimonial Scoop, Part 2,” the article starts with the updated number of deaths from vaccine side effects released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), which stands at 1,966, saying doctors and nurses beginning to speak out about a situation they have never experienced before.3 It goes on to describe jelly-like blood clots, myocardial cells disintegrating (toketa 溶けた dissolved), and interstitial pneumonia in the victims, with an illustration depicting a cytokine storm.
The article notes that though the official fatality count stands at 1,966, that is likely “the tip of the iceberg,” because even if someone dies shortly after their vaccination, their relatives might not even be aware of a possible connection and not ask for an investigation, in which case it will be labeled “sudden death” and forgotten. (Japan lacks a public reporting system for adverse vaccine reactions, relying on doctors to report such, and even where countries have such a system, like VAERS, there are notorious for undercounting.)
Aoyama Masayuki, a lawyer representing the bereaved noted a conspicuously high number of cases of people dying of heart issues within five days of inoculation, especially people in their 30s or younger who had no history of heart disease. What also stood out, Aoyama said, was women suffering hemorrhages in their brain and other organs right after inoculation, and also cases of rhabdomyolosis, in which muscle tissue breaks down, with the heart muscle suddenly melting in this case.
Doctors have also noted lots of people developing high fevers after inoculation, with fatal outcomes, possibly succumbing to cytokine storms. The article warns that anyone developing a fever in excess of 40 should take extra caution.
The article also mentions long-term effects, which can have fatal outcomes several months after inoculation. One case is described of a man experiencing tingling in the hands and feet, followed by progressively severe weakness. No cause could be identified at first, but after trips to several hospitals it was finally identified as Guillain-Barre syndrome. Nursing homes, where almost all of the patients are receiving boosters as soon as they are available, are reporting reduced immune function leading to reports of a notable rise in people succumbing to pneumonia. Also, the number of people aging rapidly or dying suddenly one or two months post-injection is increasing. Even those who do not die from it suffer from lethargy and feeling poorly for no clear reason, and it is likely that their mitochondria have been affected.
The article says that according to statistics, about one in 800 has complications from the vaccines. More and more doctors are noting severe side effects and speaking up about them. One is quoted as saying, “The rate of fatalities resulting from the corona vaccines is more than 100 times that from influenza vaccines. Despite that, the government intends to continue this vaccination program that it started ‘without everyone on board.’ Since it has become clear that there is this much risk, wouldn’t halting the program, reviewing its safety, and if necessary, making improvements before proceeding with vaccination be the scientific approach?”
For the life of me, I cannot locate the author’s name for this article. There may be good reasons for that.
The Ramifications
It is hard to say how this is going to play out over time. The scandal is too big to see the inside of a courtroom, and the disclaimer on the MHLW’s website tells us how that would work out if it were tried. The sacrificial victims of World War II come to mind, where citizens were urged to leap off a cliff to avoid capture and disgrace. But that was in the desperate moments of a war being lost, and that government was subsequently disbanded and discredited. As the current tragedy unfolds, depending on the scale and severity, what will become of Japan’s government? And will the buck stop there?
Right now, if you stop and talk to anyone on the street here, chances are they’ll have a tale of hardship to tell you regarding the COVID vaccination. The entire fire-fighting force in our town was out of service with high fevers after their turn, and replacements had to be called in temporarily. The long-term effects were the biggest concern because the clinical trials for these vaccines did not attempt to discover them, and in fact, Pfizer appeared to deliberately obfuscate the long-term effects by vaccinating the control group. My own bellwether, a socially active, physically strong farmer in her 80s, faded after hers and passed away several months later, and that told me all I really needed to know.
The Japanese public has not heard yet about Bill Gates’ cavalier antics and announcement last week that the experimental vaccines that so much of the world has been subjected to, many against their will, turned out, what a shame, to be no good after all. Nor have they seen what Sy Hersh wrote last week about the Nord Stream pipeline yet. They will. Regarding the latter, the TV ran a preemptive program claiming Gen. Gerasimov had all but said Russia was relying heavily on propaganda in its war effort, but I wonder how the public will receive that, given how past public pronouncements on the SMO and on Putin in particular have panned out.
The government has discontinued its ad campaign for the boosters. As it stands, simple noncompliance with the government’s COVID vaccination program is rampant and growing. As long as Japan does not resort to coercive measures, which it could at the behest of international bodies, the anger over this is more likely to be directed against the companies whose greed laid the foundations for the disaster and anyone in Japan’s government thought to have colluded with them.
Already, the Japanese are reexamining their international relations, particularly with the US, to whom they are now painfully aware of their vassalage. They are also being pressured to buy a large number of expensive Tomahawk cruise missiles which would give them “base strike” capability against enemy territory. This they do not want, as it would make them a target if hostilities were to erupt with their neighbors. (Even worse, the missiles were shown in the 2017 strike on Syria to be basically second rate.) The Pax Americana deal as the grateful Japanese perceive it was that Japan would forego aggression and develop its society peacefully, and having lived through the horrors of World War II, the Japanese were willing to pay a good price for that.
Prime Minister Kishida is widely seen as weak even to consider such a purchase with money Japan does not have. The vaccine fiasco on top of this will only increase the citizens’ reluctance to cooperate with bellicose globalist imperatives.
1Distribution terminated in September 2022 due to poor demand after reports from overseas of blood clotting
2For example, when I was granted qualifications as a Shinto priestess, it was the weeklies that introduced me to the public. Then, about a year later, the mass media took their turn.
3Throughout the article, it is implicit that “vaccine” refers to the COVID-19 vaccines, predominantly Moderna and Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines, but also a smaller percentage of AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccine before it was discontinued.
by Patricia Ormsby
Recently, reports have started appearing in the Japanese press on vaccine-related injuries and fatalities. Below I summarize the history, context and current situation regarding COVID vaccination in Japan, then discuss possible ramifications in light of international events.
A Love of Science
Japan was initially slow to start vaccinating its citizens against the corona virus, taking a more cautious approach than many countries. This, I believe, reflects a relatively high level of scientific knowledge among its citizens, due to the strong focus on science in their primary education. They are more likely to recognize that not everyone needs to be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity,” for example, and that the primary purpose of vaccination is directly to protect the individual receiving the vaccine from the disease. Japan has all along taken a conservative stance with vaccination overall, adopting a more modest vaccine schedule for its school children than America, and taking reports of adverse effects seriously (e.g., suspending HPV vaccination after reports of “diverse symptoms”).
Moderate Response, Cautious Approach
At no time during the pandemic nor in living memory has Japan “locked down” its citizens. In response to the spread of the corona virus, it relied on exhortations to “stay home,” combined with social pressure. This functions well in Japan, and this time was no exception. A mere exhortation can be overkill. For example, my Japanese relatives have given up all unessential travel, even within Japan for events and activities that they used to enjoy, and they might never feel okay about travelling again. That’s how powerful a force social pressure is in Japanese society.
Thus despite not locking down, Japan fared reasonably well in the pandemic. I think another important factor is that they were in relatively good health to start with. This is a result of Japan’s notorious sexual inequality. Recently, the situation may be changing due to international (i.e., Western) pressure, and women who want a career may have more opportunities now, but at least until recently women were really encouraged to stay home and take care of their family, and that’s what they devoted themselves to, with their scientific education informing their choices.
I am not an insider to Japan’s medical system, but I imagine they were balancing analyses of the data coming out from various sources regarding the “warp speed” vaccines against political necessity. After hesitating a few months, Japan began vaccinating its medical personnel in April 2021. I am told the government never actually mandated it, but I have also heard from the people affected that their employer essentially required it, and they faced enormous pressure to accept it. Of course, many medical personnel welcomed the vaccinations.
Japan initiated mass inoculation with the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines around the time of the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, later adding AstraZeneca’s1, and it looked to me that they were responding to international economic pressure in the form of a recommendation against travel to Japan, right before the Olympics, due to an “uncontrolled COVID-19 outbreak.” At that time, cases were declining after a spike that followed the initial vaccinations of medical personnel. I note, one could have speculated that an influx of foreigners for the games plus summer vacation with urbanites visiting elderly relatives would cause another spike similar in amplitude to those coinciding with holidays in the preceding year and a half.
When Japan finally launched its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19, they ran TV advertisements proclaiming it was everyone’s “duty” to get vaccinated. The magic word had its desired effect, and Japan quickly achieved a very high inoculation rate among its citizens. The outcome was the highest spike yet in cases in July, extending into August 2021. That, in turn, was dwarfed by subsequent spikes in 2022. The cover of last week’s Shukan Post magazine featured a headline asking “Is it true that the more times you are vaccinated, the more likely you are to catch the corona virus?”
Japan’s vaccination campaign gave precedence to the elderly and worked its way down to teenagers within a few months. Somewhat fewer people in each lower age group complied. As of March 2022, roughly 98% of Japanese aged 80 and older were fully vaccinated, and about 75% of teenagers. Japan also began offering vaccination to infants and small children in October 2022.
Overall, as of Jan. 24, 2023, two-thirds of Japan’s citizens had also received a third dose. All in all, five doses have been made available to anyone wanting them, including the bivalent vaccine, but there have been few willing recipients for the latter. All of my nearest relatives and a number of my acquaintances are making no secret that they will not take any more boosters.
Truth and Consequences
At the beginning of Japan’s mass vaccination campaign, one retired friend who surfed the Internet avidly warned me and my husband of reports of fatalities among the early recipients of the vaccines. He declared he would not be vaccinated.
Others spoke up similarly. The media’s response was to pillory a few older women (cue “hysterical”) who were said to have been fooled by Internet rumors into thinking the shots were a bioweapon or a means of chipping. After that many people with valid concerns about the novel technology and hasty testing kept quiet, or faced hostility if they did speak up. The experimental program went forward with little resistance.
I have only tiptoed into Japan’s lively Internet culture, but I hear the anonymous 4chan forum originated there, and it gives you an example of the phenomenon as it exists in the context of Japanese society. I do not have a smartphone and like most people my age in Japan, I have little time between work and family duties. But I hear it is a free-for-all with a lot of unofficial information being shared and the people involved taking it seriously. A lot of what I’ve heard from users was unverifiable, and a good percent turned out to be false. (When the SMO began, for example, it was flooded with tales of Russian atrocities.)
Given the need for uniformity within Japanese society, and also given their experience with tyranny (gradually slipping out of living memory now), such anonymous forums can be an important pressure release valve here and a means of sharing important information that cannot be revealed in decent society. I would actually be surprised if we saw Japan’s authorities crack down on it the way that has happened in the US. They probably realize that a crackdown is only likely to make people less likely to trust official sources than they do now. (Japan recognized the “Streisand Effect” long before that lovely lady had her crisis.) Trust in the mainstream media and other authorities in Japan is still high, as we can see from the level of compliance with the call to vaccinate, but there is deep cultural recognition of a distinction between “official truth” (lies, but from mostly benevolent intent) and the underlying “real reality” (which would only make unnecessary waves if owned up to).
At least that’s how it’s supposed to work in a Confucian society. In practice, though, the official truth on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s website is, “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided. Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent. Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around (sic) you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.” The reality as Prof. Thorsten J. Pattberg has described in one of his articles last year is that the University of Tokyo required him to receive the vaccination, and when he hesitated to sign the consent form, the doctor went and signed it for him. Likewise, for the recently resumed “Big Cold Ablution” ceremony at a major shrine near Tokyo, the official word from the shrine was “masks optional,” but having lived here 38 years, I knew good and well what that really meant.
Freedom of Information
Prior to the Internet, publishers in Japan had little to fear from lawsuits, and they put out a stream of books on all sorts of highly controversial topics. The authorities simply ignored that for the most part, because the audience for these books was small and controversies revealed would be quickly forgotten with the next scandal. These books would hit the stands for a month or two and then go out of publication and disappear entirely. (It was through one such book that my husband was able to find a doctor to prescribe him insulin and coach him on the use, which he desperately needed—but that story would be an entire book by itself.)
The mainstream media in Japan have long been known to obey authority, which in turn is under the control of Western powers. The people of Japan by and large still believe the Western powers to be benevolent and beneficial. Nonetheless, if they really want to know what is going on, they turn to the weeklies, because that is where controversial matters get aired. 2 They are like Western tabloids in a lot of ways, but make a stronger attempt to present verifiable facts.
The covers and the contents of most are a gallimaufry of serious articles on hot topics, soft porn, sports and manga. The cover of the copy I’m holding of the February 4th issue of Shukan Gendai has a couple of semi-naked cuties at the top left; a line-up of women’s golf stars; “SEX” in bold letters in a title about a TV drama set in medieval Japan; a warning about smartphones causing blindness; several titles of articles (one on frightful side effects of acetaminophen) and a sumo wrestler blocking the publication’s name; a big yellow band below that saying, “’Her Heart Melted!’ Gruesome Vaccine Deaths”; a mob of hot titles below that in primary colors, the biggest of which at the center in black is “Anyone Can be 30 Again—Genki Checklist; and down at the bottom right, Tokyo’s mayor scratching her head in wonder.
Among the articles contained therein is the second in a series taking a serious look at corona vaccine fatalities in Japan. This has been a suppressed but widely known secret, hints of which have begun appearing even in Japan’s mainstream media recently. That the February 9 Yomiuri Shimbun, a mainstream daily with no reputation for addressing controversies, has advertisements on page 6 for the Josei Seven women’s weekly and Shukan Shincho conservative weekly (described in Wikipedia here), both of which prominently feature articles this week on vaccine deaths. So the scandal has really broken through the wall of silence to the public in Japan now.
The Shukan Gendai Article
Titled, “Active Duty Doctors and Nurses are Warning, Gruesome Reality of ‘Vaccine Deaths’ Testimonial Scoop, Part 2,” the article starts with the updated number of deaths from vaccine side effects released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), which stands at 1,966, saying doctors and nurses beginning to speak out about a situation they have never experienced before.3 It goes on to describe jelly-like blood clots, myocardial cells disintegrating (toketa 溶けた dissolved), and interstitial pneumonia in the victims, with an illustration depicting a cytokine storm.
The article notes that though the official fatality count stands at 1,966, that is likely “the tip of the iceberg,” because even if someone dies shortly after their vaccination, their relatives might not even be aware of a possible connection and not ask for an investigation, in which case it will be labeled “sudden death” and forgotten. (Japan lacks a public reporting system for adverse vaccine reactions, relying on doctors to report such, and even where countries have such a system, like VAERS, there are notorious for undercounting.)
Aoyama Masayuki, a lawyer representing the bereaved noted a conspicuously high number of cases of people dying of heart issues within five days of inoculation, especially people in their 30s or younger who had no history of heart disease. What also stood out, Aoyama said, was women suffering hemorrhages in their brain and other organs right after inoculation, and also cases of rhabdomyolosis, in which muscle tissue breaks down, with the heart muscle suddenly melting in this case.
Doctors have also noted lots of people developing high fevers after inoculation, with fatal outcomes, possibly succumbing to cytokine storms. The article warns that anyone developing a fever in excess of 40 should take extra caution.
The article also mentions long-term effects, which can have fatal outcomes several months after inoculation. One case is described of a man experiencing tingling in the hands and feet, followed by progressively severe weakness. No cause could be identified at first, but after trips to several hospitals it was finally identified as Guillain-Barre syndrome. Nursing homes, where almost all of the patients are receiving boosters as soon as they are available, are reporting reduced immune function leading to reports of a notable rise in people succumbing to pneumonia. Also, the number of people aging rapidly or dying suddenly one or two months post-injection is increasing. Even those who do not die from it suffer from lethargy and feeling poorly for no clear reason, and it is likely that their mitochondria have been affected.
The article says that according to statistics, about one in 800 has complications from the vaccines. More and more doctors are noting severe side effects and speaking up about them. One is quoted as saying, “The rate of fatalities resulting from the corona vaccines is more than 100 times that from influenza vaccines. Despite that, the government intends to continue this vaccination program that it started ‘without everyone on board.’ Since it has become clear that there is this much risk, wouldn’t halting the program, reviewing its safety, and if necessary, making improvements before proceeding with vaccination be the scientific approach?”
For the life of me, I cannot locate the author’s name for this article. There may be good reasons for that.
The Ramifications
It is hard to say how this is going to play out over time. The scandal is too big to see the inside of a courtroom, and the disclaimer on the MHLW’s website tells us how that would work out if it were tried. The sacrificial victims of World War II come to mind, where citizens were urged to leap off a cliff to avoid capture and disgrace. But that was in the desperate moments of a war being lost, and that government was subsequently disbanded and discredited. As the current tragedy unfolds, depending on the scale and severity, what will become of Japan’s government? And will the buck stop there?
Right now, if you stop and talk to anyone on the street here, chances are they’ll have a tale of hardship to tell you regarding the COVID vaccination. The entire fire-fighting force in our town was out of service with high fevers after their turn, and replacements had to be called in temporarily. The long-term effects were the biggest concern because the clinical trials for these vaccines did not attempt to discover them, and in fact, Pfizer appeared to deliberately obfuscate the long-term effects by vaccinating the control group. My own bellwether, a socially active, physically strong farmer in her 80s, faded after hers and passed away several months later, and that told me all I really needed to know.
The Japanese public has not heard yet about Bill Gates’ cavalier antics and announcement last week that the experimental vaccines that so much of the world has been subjected to, many against their will, turned out, what a shame, to be no good after all. Nor have they seen what Sy Hersh wrote last week about the Nord Stream pipeline yet. They will. Regarding the latter, the TV ran a preemptive program claiming Gen. Gerasimov had all but said Russia was relying heavily on propaganda in its war effort, but I wonder how the public will receive that, given how past public pronouncements on the SMO and on Putin in particular have panned out.
The government has discontinued its ad campaign for the boosters. As it stands, simple noncompliance with the government’s COVID vaccination program is rampant and growing. As long as Japan does not resort to coercive measures, which it could at the behest of international bodies, the anger over this is more likely to be directed against the companies whose greed laid the foundations for the disaster and anyone in Japan’s government thought to have colluded with them.
Already, the Japanese are reexamining their international relations, particularly with the US, to whom they are now painfully aware of their vassalage. They are also being pressured to buy a large number of expensive Tomahawk cruise missiles which would give them “base strike” capability against enemy territory. This they do not want, as it would make them a target if hostilities were to erupt with their neighbors. (Even worse, the missiles were shown in the 2017 strike on Syria to be basically second rate.) The Pax Americana deal as the grateful Japanese perceive it was that Japan would forego aggression and develop its society peacefully, and having lived through the horrors of World War II, the Japanese were willing to pay a good price for that.
Prime Minister Kishida is widely seen as weak even to consider such a purchase with money Japan does not have. The vaccine fiasco on top of this will only increase the citizens’ reluctance to cooperate with bellicose globalist imperatives.
1Distribution terminated in September 2022 due to poor demand after reports from overseas of blood clotting
2For example, when I was granted qualifications as a Shinto priestess, it was the weeklies that introduced me to the public. Then, about a year later, the mass media took their turn.
3Throughout the article, it is implicit that “vaccine” refers to the COVID-19 vaccines, predominantly Moderna and Pfizer’s mRNA vaccines, but also a smaller percentage of AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccine before it was discontinued.
