Some in the independent Internet news media world seem to have the misconception that most Japanese people now reject the Covid narrative of the last five years. The truth is the opposite. Japan’s leaders, the news media, and the public still mostly adhere to the Covid lies that large numbers of people in the rest of the world now admit were false.
For example, consider the following article and its headline from September 2, 2024: “Japan Warns COVID Vaccines Causing Global Population Collapse.” The article gives the impression that Japan as a whole is warning the world. Unfortunately, such is not the case. Nor is the Japanese news media as a whole warning the population about the Covid injections, as the article implies in claiming that “Japanese media begins to approach the issue with honesty…”
On the contrary, the vast majority of mainstream Japanese news stories continue to depict opposition to Covid vaccines as irrational fear. On October 7, 2024, The Japan Times ran an article titled “Experts move to allay replicon Covid shots fears in Japan amid backlash,” which unsurprisingly depicted well-founded anxiety as irrational fear that goes against enlightened “expert opinion.”
Of course, they neglected to mention Japanese experts and researchers who hold the opposite opinion about mRNA injections – especially about the newer, self-replicating variety. Moreover, they ignore the existing mountain of evidence that mRNA injections in general are unsafe and ineffective. Instead, they praise the self-replicating shots as superior to the older shots, which “can only keep infection or development of symptoms at bay for a few months.”
This article seems to be more in line with the reality of Japanese life and thought patterns that I am familiar with than the anti-vaxx line of thought. When I was living in Japan the people wore the masks whenever they thought that they may be a little bit under the weather, in order not to spread the problem to others. I imagine that they are doing the masking even more in the era of the big COVID scamdemic scare. The article does a very accurate summation of how the peer-pressure society of Japan works, with only a few escapees. That is a huge part of the idea of gaijin, which is another way of saying outsider or foreigner. Any person escaping from one location to another is a gaijin and treated with suspicion and non-trust in a high-trust society. It is like being excommunicated or shunned.