"....or 74.7 percent, of Japan's population of around 125 million have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with almost 100 million having received at least one dose."
One dose?
Three approved:
Pfizer. AstraZeneca. Moderna.
Johnson and Johnson not deemed safe.
Shionogi (domestic) in the late stage of clinical.
74% now double vaccinated out of the entire population, all ages.
Japan bureaucracy took FOREVER to get these three approved for use, something like three months behind the US, and it is very skittish about any kind of foreign-produced vaccinations without thorough retesting on Japanese patients first. Very low risk and thorough quality control nation, and protective of its people and its markets. China’s crap vaccines never took off here, never approved.