Suga offers COVID-19 support for Pacific islands in online meetings

vowing to host a "safe and secure" Tokyo Olympics

well, that's a relief !

Hé is gonna give AstraZeneca

The Marshall Islands recognizes Taiwan as the ROC (and thus do not have official relations with Beijing).

Source:https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/taiwan/Pages/australia-taiwan-relationship

Nice move Japan :-)

Suga said Japan will help the five countries...bolster their health care systems...

This is deliciously ironic. If any system needs "bolstering," it's Japan's. Its fractured healthcare system is the main reason why Japan's rollout is the worst of developed countries, having to desperately rely on the military and private workplaces to put jabs in people's arms rather than on public healthcare providers.

Charity begins at home.

Suga. A great Prime Minister who will go down in history as a total flop.

Who will trust Japan when Japan can’t even help itself? Remember Japan said the best strategy to stop COVID was to test people only after 4 continuous days of fever. Come olympics, foreigners must be tested every day even if they don’t have symptoms. This type of hypocrisy is a joke.

... in exchange for?

Taiwan has stories blaming Japan for more than 150 deaths from the AZ vaccines Japan donated, possible linking it to incorrect storage procedures. And Japan wants to support other countries? What a joke.

I still don't understand why we don't offer support to Brazil and Peru. These nations has the largest population of japanese communities living there. Brazil itself has more than a million japanese living there. And these latin america countries had been pretty hit hard by covid. But after so long, there is still zero mention of any support to help them out.

During our times in need like the 2011 earthquake, these 2 nation had offer large support to us. Is only right we also return the favor and help out.

Taiwan has stories blaming Japan for more than 150 deaths from the AZ vaccines Japan donated,

Link?

Taiwan has stories blaming Japan for more than 150 deaths from the AZ vaccines Japan donated,

Really?

 The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Monday (June 28) announced that 29 people have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine over the past three days, but no direct correlation between the vaccines and these deaths has been made. Autopsies show that vaccine recipients died from chronic diseases

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4234661

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Monday (June 28) announced that 29 people have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine over the past three days, but no direct correlation between the vaccines and these deaths has been made. Autopsies show that vaccine recipients died from chronic diseases

Yeah, right.

If they'd tested positive for covid in the last month or so, regardless of whether the virus had actually contributed to their deaths, guaranteed that the deaths would have been blamed on the virus.

But if they'd died shortly after taking the vaccine, it's purely coincidence.

If they'd tested positive for covid in the last month or so, regardless of whether the virus had actually contributed to their deaths, guaranteed that the deaths would have been blamed on the virus.

COVID infection has been demonstrated to be a very important contributing factor for deaths primarily designated to chronic diseases (as in higher number of people die from them after the infection).

This do not apply for the vaccines, that is the difference.

Typical Japan's politics that silence criticism or anxiety by money.

Pacific islands have opposed that Japan will dump radioactive contaminated water from Fukushima to the sea.

I'm sure the cook islands with 0 cases 0 deaths, Marshalls 4 cases 0 deaths, Niue 0/0, Tonga 0/0, Federated States of Micronesia 0/0 are really looking forward to support from Japan; the worst hit country in the Asia Pacific region.

Does Suga think people there live in caves?