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Fraught history haunts Japan s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has said he would be among the first to be vaccinated for COVID-19, in an apparent attempt to bolster lukewarm confidence about the jab. AFP January 11, 2021 / 10:47 AM IST File image: A medical worker receives experimental H1N1 flu shot at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan in October 19, 2009. (Image: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao (Japan Health Society) A history of vaccine controversies in Japan may cast a long shadow over the coronavirus jab rollout, experts warn, even as the country battles a severe third wave of infections. While vaccine hesitancy, and outright opposition, has been growing in developed countries in recent years, public suspicion dates back much further in Japan.

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