A new study has been published by researchers from Tokyo University with the horrible title of “Anti-vaccine rabbit hole leads to political representation: the case of Twitter in Japan”.
I have never been a fan of the term anti-vaxxer. In fact, I don't even know how to spell it correctly. I prefer to call myself an anti-bullshit platformist. This concession has led me to the current situation I find myself in: unvaxxed and unmasked. I am a walking advertisement for the absurdity of this all, yet no has ever confronted me and asked why I am still alive.
Up, down, left, right it is utter madness when they assign political reasons for refusing an experimental injection or any injection for that matter. I refuse because I am concerned for the present and future health of my body, they are trying to keep the conflict and hate alive and will reach for anything to back up their cause. They put you on one side, give you a name then stir up as much resentment and hate they can muster. This "anti-vaxxer" rhetoric needs to die a death it richly deserves.
I just love that something so retarded as this can be called research AND get published! Thanks for the great laugh, Guy! I owe you yet another beer...
I read this rubbish so you don’t have to! Let me know if you get back up to Tokyo in 2024, since circumstances being what they are, I doubt I’ll be making it to Hiroshima or anywhere else anytime soon.
Thanks for posting, Guy Gin - I had read part of this before - that's one large steaming heap of 論文 - and fro Todai, no less.
Still, as you point out, there is useful information therein. Politicians and parties not reflecting the views (or interests) of their members is familiar enough to Americans - not at all surprising to see it at work here, although you'd think it would be much less pronounced with opposition parties.
I hope Sanseito can break out to the point of having some serious influence - wasn't that aware of them taking up the vax/covid response issues. They appear to be pushing for a real paradigm shift - toward a society that actually works on ground-up, consent of the governed principles.
Which you, and pretty much anyone paying much attention to Japan, knows it NOT how things work here. The current system works fine for the elites really running things - it's easy to credit their not wanting the idea that things could and should be otherwise to take hold among the serfs.
Agriculture and food self-sufficiency, education and defense are all areas Sanseito is emphasizing, too. Where I live, officialdom seems happy enough to pave over rice fields for new construction, even with a declining population, thousands of empty houses and a food self-sufficiency rate of what? thirty percent or so? Insane, but it ups their tax base...
FWIW - there's a new Japanese movie out based on true accounts of vax-injured in Japan and their dealings with the medical and legal system. Just released this month, they are looking for more venues for it to be shown.
レタパっく裁判 Retapakku Saiban (only Japanese at this point AFAIK)
Hey there, Blue, you should join us in Tokyo if you can swing it. Perhaps late summer, early fall?
My wife and I are solidly behind Sanseito here in the UN/NGO-controlled world that is Hiroshima. This prefecture is as 'globalist' oriented as they come (hard to turn a corner without bumping into 'nonsensical SDG kommie nonsense'), but even here one can find brilliant and inspiring points of freedom, joy and Fightback!
Hi, Dion - I don't make it to the megalopolis very often, and have yet to get to Hiroshima at all. But we're here in Shizuoka ken - conveniently on the way to or from Tokyo, so if you'll be passing through at some point and can stop in en route let me know.
BTW - did you notice that Guy Gin's icon thingy is a nice shade of Sansei orange?
Thanks heaps, Guy. Yep, and rubbish it most certainly is.
I will definitely give you plenty of notice before showing up and disturbing your quiet Tokyo solitude! I am planning for a summer or fall trip at the moment, but I will let you know once things fall more concretely into place.
Western leftists are an easy bunch to manipulate. All you have to say is "Anyone who doesn't get the jab is a right-winger", and they'll role their sleeves up unquestioningly. And to be fair. most left-wing Japanese went along with the narrative too.
I think the deciding factor in narrative belief is trust in the authorities, and most people in Japan who distrust the authorities are old-school hippy-ish Left-wingers (anti-GMO, pro-organic types).
(Hippy-ish??) That's an awfully small part of the Japanese community in my opinion, the article sounds to me to go along with the prevailing Narrative. In other words I don't think the article is accurate in the least more like propaganda, most folks I know who did not take the Jab in Japan just happen to be very conservative which is the majority of Japanese people actually, and I'm not saying that was the majority against the jab, it's just personal observation. So in my opinion this so called research is nothing more than trash.
I wonder if the authors couldn't find people who are neither "anti-vaccine" nor "pro-vaccine", just apolitical. My children definitely belong to such a group! They don't care about or trust TV or the gov. Oh, they don't live in Twitter/X!
After reading Lee Fang's substack article on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on social media I wonder how many of those pro-vax accounts are industry promoted or nudged.
Seems funny that the characteristics they describe for 'low' accounts ('like games and anime, encompassing terms such as “adult” (mature content), daily life....No political keywords are present') sound just like the bot accounts that seem to plague X - is it different in Japan? Intrigued to know what table talk role-playing games and Uma Musume (name of a game) are.
The most widely followed pro-vax influencers of Japanese Covid Twitter/X tend to be medical personnel who are almost certainly being paid to propagandise. But their profile info is usually job related ("Physician in Tokyo"), so I doubt there'd be enough repetition of certain keywords for them to show up in the 50,000-account analysis the authors did for pro-vax tweeters.
As for how many bot accounts were included, your guess is as good as mine. But most Japan adults got the shots, which means most of Japan's many apolitical nerds got them, so the results don't seem too unrealistic to me.
Here's a handy link for anyone wanting to do some off-narrative influencing of your own with Japanese people - January press conference with a number of researchers with serious academic credentials calling BS on the vax and covid response.
Main speaker is Prof. Fukushima - a very senior cancer specialist at Kyoto U.
Japanese people I've shown this to seemed somewhat shocked/impressed - as it's clearly people with credible backgrounds, but completely at variance with the Official Narrative:
My wife and I both voted for Sanseito on the basis that they were the only party clearly speaking truth about the coronahoax but their anti-globalist policies and interpretations of the historical conditions which brought us up to this point were also spot on.
There appeared to be some shenanigans with the voting as for some reason the amount of votes for the proportional representatives (where you vote for any party) was less than the votes for the local constituencies (even though Sanseito didn't run candidates everywhere), when the opposite would be expected to be true. They ended up about 100,000 votes short of getting a second seat in the Diet.
Shortly after the election, an Israeli newspaper had a picture of Kamiya Sohei with the headline "Japanese politician who railed against Jewish finance wins seat", so it seems their tentacles everywhere. Kamiya has been leading the charge for getting the government to recognize vaxxine injuries as he has chaired many of the meetings where the Ministry attends to make excuses for what happened.
Kamiya has made an alliance of sorts with the CDP's Haraguchi Kazuhiro who was diagnosed with cancer after the jabs and has also been speaking out against the dangers in public and in the Diet. Another CDP politician demanded the jabs be stopped in late 2022 citing the excess deaths (and his unabating arm pain) but Kono Taro said the CDC hasn't disclosed any reason to stop, which is a good indication of who is running things in Japan. Nevertheless, most of the opposition parties are useless and controlled.
I had hopes for Reiwa Shisengumi at one point but Yamamoto Taro wore masks everywhere, did not acknowledge what was happening with the vaxx and even made a point to try and pressure government to test raw sewage for spike proteins, so he lost me. It's obvious now he is a plant using populism to drive forward anti-Japan policies.
Sanseito was ranked 3rd among political parties for 10-19 year olds who found many of their speeches on TikTok, so that bodes well. Unfortunately, the party has been dealing with lots of infighting in the past year and some key members have left with no one else picking up the slack. Two steps forward, one step back.
Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs and everyone is against everything the LDP does.
The paper also criticises Sanseito for "conspiracy theories about Jewish finance" amongst other things.
"Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs". Yep. Most people got the jabs because most other people did; now hardly anyone gets the jabs because hardly anyone does.
I have never been a fan of the term anti-vaxxer. In fact, I don't even know how to spell it correctly. I prefer to call myself an anti-bullshit platformist. This concession has led me to the current situation I find myself in: unvaxxed and unmasked. I am a walking advertisement for the absurdity of this all, yet no has ever confronted me and asked why I am still alive.
Hey G. Incognito,
Thanks to you as well fella! In your case, I owe you a ginger ale then.
Looking forward to hopefully crossing paths this year!
Up, down, left, right it is utter madness when they assign political reasons for refusing an experimental injection or any injection for that matter. I refuse because I am concerned for the present and future health of my body, they are trying to keep the conflict and hate alive and will reach for anything to back up their cause. They put you on one side, give you a name then stir up as much resentment and hate they can muster. This "anti-vaxxer" rhetoric needs to die a death it richly deserves.
Pardon my language but F*** vaccines and F*** those who push them.
Especially the experimental kind
No need to be so apologetic. You can go ahead and say, “Fauci vaccines and Fauci those who push them!”.
I just love that something so retarded as this can be called research AND get published! Thanks for the great laugh, Guy! I owe you yet another beer...
I read this rubbish so you don’t have to! Let me know if you get back up to Tokyo in 2024, since circumstances being what they are, I doubt I’ll be making it to Hiroshima or anywhere else anytime soon.
Thanks for posting, Guy Gin - I had read part of this before - that's one large steaming heap of 論文 - and fro Todai, no less.
Still, as you point out, there is useful information therein. Politicians and parties not reflecting the views (or interests) of their members is familiar enough to Americans - not at all surprising to see it at work here, although you'd think it would be much less pronounced with opposition parties.
I hope Sanseito can break out to the point of having some serious influence - wasn't that aware of them taking up the vax/covid response issues. They appear to be pushing for a real paradigm shift - toward a society that actually works on ground-up, consent of the governed principles.
Which you, and pretty much anyone paying much attention to Japan, knows it NOT how things work here. The current system works fine for the elites really running things - it's easy to credit their not wanting the idea that things could and should be otherwise to take hold among the serfs.
Agriculture and food self-sufficiency, education and defense are all areas Sanseito is emphasizing, too. Where I live, officialdom seems happy enough to pave over rice fields for new construction, even with a declining population, thousands of empty houses and a food self-sufficiency rate of what? thirty percent or so? Insane, but it ups their tax base...
FWIW - there's a new Japanese movie out based on true accounts of vax-injured in Japan and their dealings with the medical and legal system. Just released this month, they are looking for more venues for it to be shown.
レタパっく裁判 Retapakku Saiban (only Japanese at this point AFAIK)
Trailer is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuYYWINsGRE
Hey there, Blue, you should join us in Tokyo if you can swing it. Perhaps late summer, early fall?
My wife and I are solidly behind Sanseito here in the UN/NGO-controlled world that is Hiroshima. This prefecture is as 'globalist' oriented as they come (hard to turn a corner without bumping into 'nonsensical SDG kommie nonsense'), but even here one can find brilliant and inspiring points of freedom, joy and Fightback!
Thanks for the movie link as well.
Hi, Dion - I don't make it to the megalopolis very often, and have yet to get to Hiroshima at all. But we're here in Shizuoka ken - conveniently on the way to or from Tokyo, so if you'll be passing through at some point and can stop in en route let me know.
BTW - did you notice that Guy Gin's icon thingy is a nice shade of Sansei orange?
Thanks for the link.
Thanks heaps, Guy. Yep, and rubbish it most certainly is.
I will definitely give you plenty of notice before showing up and disturbing your quiet Tokyo solitude! I am planning for a summer or fall trip at the moment, but I will let you know once things fall more concretely into place.
I agree. Keep the laughs coming! This is funnier than Spaceballs! If I were a drinking man, I would buy you a beer. How about a nice ginger ale?
Feel free to buy me anything other than a ginger ale. Can’t stand the stuff.
Give me your email, and I’ll contact you.
You got yourself a deal. I will contact you at a later date.
I always felt it was leftist pushing the jab as most are without common sense, so that’s the opposite of Japan’s research.
Western leftists are an easy bunch to manipulate. All you have to say is "Anyone who doesn't get the jab is a right-winger", and they'll role their sleeves up unquestioningly. And to be fair. most left-wing Japanese went along with the narrative too.
I think the deciding factor in narrative belief is trust in the authorities, and most people in Japan who distrust the authorities are old-school hippy-ish Left-wingers (anti-GMO, pro-organic types).
(Hippy-ish??) That's an awfully small part of the Japanese community in my opinion, the article sounds to me to go along with the prevailing Narrative. In other words I don't think the article is accurate in the least more like propaganda, most folks I know who did not take the Jab in Japan just happen to be very conservative which is the majority of Japanese people actually, and I'm not saying that was the majority against the jab, it's just personal observation. So in my opinion this so called research is nothing more than trash.
I wonder if the authors couldn't find people who are neither "anti-vaccine" nor "pro-vaccine", just apolitical. My children definitely belong to such a group! They don't care about or trust TV or the gov. Oh, they don't live in Twitter/X!
You are lucky. How did you swing that? My 10 year old comes from school with all sorts of this BS in their head.
After reading Lee Fang's substack article on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on social media I wonder how many of those pro-vax accounts are industry promoted or nudged.
https://www.leefang.com/p/moderna-is-spying-on-you
Seems funny that the characteristics they describe for 'low' accounts ('like games and anime, encompassing terms such as “adult” (mature content), daily life....No political keywords are present') sound just like the bot accounts that seem to plague X - is it different in Japan? Intrigued to know what table talk role-playing games and Uma Musume (name of a game) are.
The most widely followed pro-vax influencers of Japanese Covid Twitter/X tend to be medical personnel who are almost certainly being paid to propagandise. But their profile info is usually job related ("Physician in Tokyo"), so I doubt there'd be enough repetition of certain keywords for them to show up in the 50,000-account analysis the authors did for pro-vax tweeters.
As for how many bot accounts were included, your guess is as good as mine. But most Japan adults got the shots, which means most of Japan's many apolitical nerds got them, so the results don't seem too unrealistic to me.
Here's a handy link for anyone wanting to do some off-narrative influencing of your own with Japanese people - January press conference with a number of researchers with serious academic credentials calling BS on the vax and covid response.
Main speaker is Prof. Fukushima - a very senior cancer specialist at Kyoto U.
Japanese people I've shown this to seemed somewhat shocked/impressed - as it's clearly people with credible backgrounds, but completely at variance with the Official Narrative:
https://www.aussie17.com/p/japan-vaccine-study-groups-press
(This is an edited version - full version is around somewhere, but I haven't seen it)
Thanks for the good summary.
My wife and I both voted for Sanseito on the basis that they were the only party clearly speaking truth about the coronahoax but their anti-globalist policies and interpretations of the historical conditions which brought us up to this point were also spot on.
There appeared to be some shenanigans with the voting as for some reason the amount of votes for the proportional representatives (where you vote for any party) was less than the votes for the local constituencies (even though Sanseito didn't run candidates everywhere), when the opposite would be expected to be true. They ended up about 100,000 votes short of getting a second seat in the Diet.
Shortly after the election, an Israeli newspaper had a picture of Kamiya Sohei with the headline "Japanese politician who railed against Jewish finance wins seat", so it seems their tentacles everywhere. Kamiya has been leading the charge for getting the government to recognize vaxxine injuries as he has chaired many of the meetings where the Ministry attends to make excuses for what happened.
Kamiya has made an alliance of sorts with the CDP's Haraguchi Kazuhiro who was diagnosed with cancer after the jabs and has also been speaking out against the dangers in public and in the Diet. Another CDP politician demanded the jabs be stopped in late 2022 citing the excess deaths (and his unabating arm pain) but Kono Taro said the CDC hasn't disclosed any reason to stop, which is a good indication of who is running things in Japan. Nevertheless, most of the opposition parties are useless and controlled.
I had hopes for Reiwa Shisengumi at one point but Yamamoto Taro wore masks everywhere, did not acknowledge what was happening with the vaxx and even made a point to try and pressure government to test raw sewage for spike proteins, so he lost me. It's obvious now he is a plant using populism to drive forward anti-Japan policies.
Sanseito was ranked 3rd among political parties for 10-19 year olds who found many of their speeches on TikTok, so that bodes well. Unfortunately, the party has been dealing with lots of infighting in the past year and some key members have left with no one else picking up the slack. Two steps forward, one step back.
Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs and everyone is against everything the LDP does.
The paper also criticises Sanseito for "conspiracy theories about Jewish finance" amongst other things.
"Being anti-vaxx is largely apolitical now as 90% of under 65s have refused the updated bivalent jabs". Yep. Most people got the jabs because most other people did; now hardly anyone gets the jabs because hardly anyone does.
I think to best response to this study’s authors is, “Baaaaa.”