{"id":31259,"date":"2021-04-22T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/britons-left-stranded-by-japans-slow-vaccine-rollout"},"modified":"2021-04-22T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:57:17","slug":"britons-left-stranded-by-japans-slow-vaccine-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31259","title":{"rendered":"Britons left stranded by Japan\u2019s slow vaccine rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has vaccinated less than 1% of the population, leaving many expatriates frustrated London is not helping them<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/japan-faces-olympian-task-slow-start-covid-vaccinations\">troubled vaccination rollout<\/a> has left British residents feeling \u201ctrapped\u201d in their adopted home, preventing them visiting parents and children they haven\u2019t seen since before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Since its rollout began in mid-February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has vaccinated less than 1% of its population, compared with 2.9% in South Korea and at least 40% in the US and Britain. Supply issues, red tape and poor planning have prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/nhkworld\/en\/news\/20210419_25\/\">warnings<\/a> that it could take another year to vaccinate the country\u2019s 110 million over-15s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/britons-left-stranded-by-japans-slow-vaccine-rollout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has vaccinated less than 1% of the population, leaving many expatriates frustrated London is not helping themJapan\u2019s troubled vaccination rollout has left British residents feeling \u201ctrapped\u201d in their adopted home, preventing them visiting parents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,88,52,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-uk-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31259\/revisions\/31260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}