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.
Yep. My experience from living there 14 years: citizens first, legal residents second, visitors third and illegal aliens on the next available flight out.