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I do not think it is sold openly. It is not authorized for use outside of clinicals they are doing in Osaka I believe, although they might already be prescribing it. The prime movers in Japan's recovery essentially from COVID were the two vaccines, which as I said took forever to get approved here after multiple retesting and clinicals, i.e. they would not accept the clinical testing data from abroad on non Japanese and wanted a testbed of Japanese patients to try it out on. There was initially a temporary hold on Moderna being used, but it was reapproved. That is the one I had.

Japan also never approved the use of ivermectin for use against COVID-19. The doctor who suggested in August it might be an option - if further research found it to be effective - was chair of the Tokyo Medical Association (TMA), which is not a governmental agency and has no authority to make such a decree. Nor is ivermectin listed as an approved treatment by the Japanese government. I know of NO doctors here prescribing it. Absolutely none whatsoever. But I do now there were some bogus "news sites" back in the states, making some wild claims--since discredited.