At this point, almost all Western countries have introduced some form of vaccine passport or vaccine mandate. Despite repeated assurances from the Vaccines Minister that this wouldn’t happen here, Britain is no exception.
Things may go further in some European countries. Austria is set to make vaccination mandatory from 1st February next year. And beginning in January, Greece will impose a monthly fine of €100 on all over 60s who remain unvaccinated.
Even the United States – supposedly the ‘land of the free’ – has not bucked the trend toward use of passports and mandates. Several states have introduced them, including some of the biggest like New York, California and Virginia. Healthcare workers with natural immunity have already been fired for refusing to comply.
You might conclude that introducing passports and mandates is just something that all advanced countries do. But that isn’t true, as there’s one major exception: Japan.
Nobody can doubt Japan’s credentials as an advanced country. It’s a member of the ‘Group of Seven’, along with the U.K., U.S., Canada, France, Italy and Germany. And it boasts the world’s third largest economy overall. Japan is known for its technologically advanced society, where the high-speed trains never run more than a few minutes late.
So what is the country’s stance on passports and mandates? So far, it’s completely eschewed them. Not only that, but the Government and Prime Minister have explicitly told citizens not to discriminate against the unvaccinated.
The following notice appears on the website for the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
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 you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.
And a similar notice appears on the website for the Prime Minister:
Vaccines will never be administered without the recipient’s consent. We urge the public never to coerce vaccinations at the workplace or upon others around them, and never to treat those who have not received the vaccine in a discriminatory manner.
Western countries still claim to be the foremost defenders of civil liberties. But in the era of Covid safetyism, it seems that mantle has passed to Japan. Perhaps the country will send a delegation of human rights experts to teach the West about individual freedom.
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Lucky Japanese!
The imbecility of politicians, media and sadly many medical practitioners and sadly the increasingly non Christian Arch Bishop of Canterbury (If his vilification of the unvaccinated is substantiated) choosing to air their bizzare views on “the unvaccinated “ is inexplicable.
The situation of being vaccinated is of no relevance but the degree of immunity.
An individual who has recovered from COVID19 will generate a different and more robust immunity than an mRNA “vaccine “ .
For any individual to suggest giving an mRNA vaccine to a recovered has not been tested by the pharmaceutical companies and is hence experiment with no ethical committee approval.
Unvaccinated are not the problem but the uninformed!
I love Japan. Amazing place, clean, tidy, safe, polite, a little pricey in some places but not really more so than London or other large cities.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Take a hard look at the 50 year career of Anthony Fauci and you might find other more sinister reasons for the Covid19 “nonsense’.
Excellent article. I’ve spent a lot of time in Japan and correspond regularly with contacts there. I’m afraid that Japan has been toying with vaccine passports for both domestic and international use. Take-up has been extremely low and most people think they will fail, mostly because the population is so old and largely not tech-savvy. If you follow Ethical Sceptic on Twitter, you’ll see that he thinks a precursor to Sars-CoV-2 spread around Asia before fall 2019 and this led to high levels of pre-existing immunity among the population of countries like Japan. I think he’s probably right. But, the main reason for Japan’s incredibly low rate of covid deaths is the fact that they already have high levels of herd immunity from Sars-Cov-2 spreading around Japan in early 2020. I was there then. The place was flooded with mainland Chinese visitors and Japan did no lockdown. In fact, they’ve never locked down. The closest they came to a lockdown was making drinking establishments close early. If you want to see my full explanation of Japan’s excellent performance in the pandemic, please see my video: Herd Immunity Made Simple on Rumble: https://rumble.com/vr7000-herd-immunity-made-simple.html
It seems like the Japanese have simply not switched from carrots to sticks yet. But for sure when they do, it will be big and hard sticks. The Japanese society is inherently authoritarian and could care less about individual freedoms. The benevolent and tolerant attitude probably just fits better the current propaganda goals of the ruling regime.
Japan appears to have worked out the scam and is looking after itself – shame about the UK.
Kudos to Japan for this vaccine position. However, we shouldn’t go overboard singing the “common-sense” praises of Japan’s leaders.
For example, Japan just hosted the Summer Olympics, an Olympics where no spectator could attend any of the events. Also, an Olympics where (as far as I know) every participant had to be vaccinated.
Both measures were mandated to “protect” the spectators and participants … when in reality both groups would have been perfectly healthy without these imposed mandates.
Also, the Summer Olympics were postponed for a year. This didn’t even have to happen. The participants and fans would have been just as healthy if the Games had taken place in 2020 as originally planned. But the Games had to be postponed per the dictates of the “experts.”
And, as far as I can tell, nobody has questioned these completely unnecessary “safety” decisions.
Also, from photos I’ve seen, it looks like everyone in Japan is wearing their masks …. outside and inside.
So there still is no “safe haven” for critical thinking. Maybe in Sweden (at least as it involves lockdowns and NPIs)?
Granted I’m a contrarian, but I would argue that the Japanese government DID discriminate against citizens who would have liked to have attended some of the Olympic events.
This “discrimination” actually harmed a lot businesses that would have made a lot of money if fans could have attended these historic and exciting sporting events.
I’ll also add that for the first time in my life I did not watch one minute of an Olympics on TV. I just didn’t want to watch a sporting event with no fans. Judging from the terrible TV ratings, I’m not the only person who took a pass on the TV coverage of the Games. This defacto boycotting of the games, did not directly cost the nation of Japan any money, but there has to be some kind of “opportunity” cost associated with this.
Here one assumes one reason Japan wanted to host the Games in the first place was to market or “sell” their country to the people of the world. Maybe some people who might travel to this country in the future because of the positive storylines they were exposed to during the Games. Well, this positive effect was neutered significantly as… Read more »
I can’t image the toadying puppet Boris ever taking the side of those who insist on preserving their bodily integrity.
Good on Japan and they’ve even added warnings about possible side effects on vaxx packaging and information leaflets.
Thanks for pointing this out. I did not know this. Good for Japan.
Seems they don’t control Japan. Wish Japanese wasn’t such a tricky language or I’d be applying to emigrate there.
Thought of Texas and Florida but eventually, if this continues, it’ll be civil war there.
I suspect soon you’ll need to be ‘fully vaccinated’ against COVID to be able to fly there or go by ship – even to ‘red’ states, because they’ll be a federal mandate in the US.
Ironically the only routes to do so without getting the jab might be via the ‘immigrant’ route via Mexico or ‘refugee’ one via Cuba. Not exactly something I would relish doing.
If DeSantis runs for President, we (the World, assuming at hasn’t ended under Biden’s regime by 2024) might stand a chance in getting back some kind of normality. He’s doing brilliantly in Florida at the moment.
Civil war here is coming…..
It comes to something when it’s the Japanese Government leading the world in Human Rights.
…and South African government knows how to conduct a sensible health policy response by their government compared to 95% of Western countries…
God help us all.
Note how the MSM in the UK is pushing the discrimination of the COVID unvaccinated (especially by making out they all are ‘anti-vaxxers’ and all white working class idiots, conveniently forgetting we cover a wide range of ethnic and life/educational backgrounds), presumably with the Ok or being pushed by the government, civil service and/or Big Pharma/Tech.
Here’s today Telegraph tryng to push this propaganda – when I first read it at breakfast time this morning, no reader comments allowed on this ‘article’:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/great-vaxx-divide-breaking-point/
Likely they’ve only allowed comments after complaints via other articles, especially under the Letters Page. Amazing how with this very one-sided piece, no-one from our side ever gets a letter published refuting their claims.
We forget in the West just how much animosity there is between Japan and China, which stretches back centuries. The Japanese are very sceptical of any ideas that are promoted by the Chinese. Since it is them that has pursued vaccine passports and a social credit system with such aggression, it is no mere coincidence that the Japanese have held back, or even resisted, these schemes.
Certainly true. Years ago (1996) I visited Beijing, and other places, where myself and a friend of mine were accompanied by an “official guide”. Didn’t take him long to criticise Japan; he definitely didn’t like them!
Thought this was v pertinent
Japanese Wary
Of Experimental Drugs
So Reject Mandates
It’s easier to inflict suffering on “the other” than one’s own. Clearly, the Japanese still run their own country. Westerners, do not.
Yep. Brownstone had a piece on that last week.
Seems it is the only country and people that have really learned a lesson from history. https://brownstone.org/articles/japans-vaccination-policy-no-force-no-discrimination/
Japan banned the use of the HPV vaccine in 2013 because of the side effects.
There was a court case against them in 2017.
Under Japanese law bureaucrats found to have neglected their duty to inform medical consumers of serious risks involved with taking medicines, vaccines and other medical products can be prosecuted and severely punished.
It’s a pity other countries do not follow suit.
They don’t trust western medicine.
I wonder why.
Guess what, the ‘Lateral Flow’ test for entry to nightclubs etc. is broken at the moment
https://test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/report-result
All part of the coercion tactics got to love the nudge unit.
Having nearly read through the whole of Kennedy’s ‘Anthony Fauci’ it is clear that there is one man behind what is going on. Frightening just how open he is about his intentions, how wrong he is, how much of a monster he is, and how little our governments have done to protect us from him. But it isn’t Fauci.
Who is it? Gates, Schwab? Too obvious, who could it be?
Yes tell us. I have the book on my kindle but haven’t read it yet.
Makes your flesh crawl when you watch him being grilled by the likes of senators Jordan, Cruz and Paul.
Odius, arrogant git, Fauci
Unfortunately foreign citizens who do not have “exceptional circumstances” are currently banned from entering Japan 🙁
Watch: German Health Minister Calls For Immediate Forced Vaccination Of Entire Population
‘Roll up your sleeve’ is Germany’s new ‘Get on the train’.
Meanwhile, experts in Lockdownunder continue shoveling fear porn.
Omicron cases could hit 200,000 a day next year without tougher restrictions, Doherty modelling warns
model = RND * 200,000
Exactly!
I believe they have some history in things like that…..
Bastard, bastard, bastard! Deranged, cunt-of-a bastard-shit-face.
Did I mention that he’s a bit of a bastard?
Bastard!
Well, crap. Now I have to decide whether I want to be Floridian or Japanese.
The linguistic and cultural differences are slightly less in Florida, although the sushi is better in Japan, and they do drive on the correct side of the road.
The driving on the correct side of the road might be the decider.
On the surface, great.
But like Sweden, can Japan be apparently more “relaxed” simply because it has such an obedient, compliant population?
In the end, Sweden has introduced vax passports like everyone else, is at the forefront of control technology like microchip vax passports (as explained on here).
Societal pressure to comply is perhaps so strong in Japan that the government has most of it’s work cut out for it anyway.
So what you are saying is that Japan is no different to the UK. Clearly no so.
How refreshing to see that in the world we currently live in. If the situation continues to deteriorate here in the UK I might move to Japan!
They don’t like westerners moving in.
For The Greater Good Parody.
“If new data show Omicron cases and hospital admissions continuing to rise fast, the UK government will have to act, a scientist says”
horseshit
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom
They’re desperate to bring in mitigation before the peak, because once infections fall with fewer deaths than previous
seasonswaves the pandemic dies, they become powerless nobodies with their 15 minutes of fame over.exactly. if we dont lockdown and we go past the peak, fergusons and LSHTM stupid 5000 deaths a day is going to look silly
All their other modelling has been made to look silly but they are still on the Today program every morning…
yes, but they claim the lockdowns stopped heir silly predictions coming true
It also stopped the space-giraffes from invading
Or did they?
An offshoot surely of Einstein’s description of stupidity: interviewing
the same person saying the same disproven scaremongering over and over again and expecting different results e.g. that this time their absurd projections of deaths will be proved right.
Silly or not the sheep are obeying !
That’s the only thing that matters to this Davos Cabal!
They can point to a line going down, say “Hey, look at the line going up”, and 95% of the population – including “experts” – will see the line as going up. Essentially all they need is someone above them in the opinion chain giving them a “reason”.
It’s like hypnotism where a person eats dogshit and thinks it’s chocolate cake.
There’s been almost a century of “social psychology” research on this.
What the government and corporate advertisers says to people simply does not depend on appealing to their logic. It appeals to their emotion. All successful propagandists know this. Even car salesmen know it, FFS.
The shows I’ve been to it’s only an onion. 🙂
It’s almost a quite literal replica of the Asch experiment writ large.
How can we waken people up from their near hypnosis? It seems logic won’t do it. Scaring them doesn’t seem to work either, for our heart is just not really in it. Demonstrations get ignored, as the Iraq war showed, though they may scare the PTB a bit into a slight withdrawal into a bit of retracting the indecent. But how do we really get through, because we are not achieving more than a slow drip, drip at the moment?
You can’t use logic to change someone’s mind, if their decision has been made through emotion.
As happened in July, but it doesn’t seem to have caused any lessening of the malign Imperial influence!
They already do.
I really do think that provides ample incentive for the Tory rebels to hold Johnson’s nerve for him…
Straight Lies.
I don’t think that Sajid Three Jabs Javid is quite on board with that message. I emailed Doris the Clown last night and asked him to have a word with Three Jabs about his anti unvaccinated hate speech on the media, stirring up division, hate and bigotry, possibly violence. And asking him to tone it down a bit. Otherwise Three Jabs might find himself in bother with Hate Speech Commissar Sadiq Khan and his metropolitan hate crime enforcers.