Confronting ‘vaccine hostility’ in Japan

‘The New Normal is life with Covid-19,’ by MIKI Yoshihito onFlickr, (CC BY 2.0) After getting off to a slow start, Japan's COVID-19 vaccination efforts have picked up steam. At the beginning of June, an average of 500,000 people a day were being vaccinated. Three weeks later, by June 24, the number of vaccinations had risen to around one million people a day. However, even as younger and younger cohorts are being invited to register for a first dose of the vaccine, small but intense pockets of “vaccine hostility” are spreading misinformation and even threats of violence against vaccination eff...