Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's Cathy cat greetings from Tokyo the director looked up
a couple of things about the vaccinations that are starting here in Japan right now
and found some interesting news of the Japanese government how they're gonna reimburse families
in case something goes wrong and someone dies from the vaccination so what exactly is happening here?
Little disclaimer we are not a news agency and even though we found this information on the
internet by the time you watch this a couple of things might have changed so always double check
in case a person passes away after they took the vaccination no matter if it's the hospital's fault
or not apparently the government is willing to pay up to 44.2 million yen that's around 400 000
dollars that go to the family of the person who passed away
and this amount is the same
level for other vaccination accidents such as rubella tuberculosis dafteria and other high-risk
diseases Japan is also a country which highly encourages people to get the flu vaccine every
year and that is a voluntary one, so in case people die from the side effects of the flu vaccine
people still get paid or their families still get paid 7.37 million in case something goes wrong
since corona is one of the high risk diseases and the vaccinations are getting rolled out right now
you will also get on top of the money for the beraved family, that they might
already be getting for accidents, they will also get extra money just for the funeral
which is around 209 000 yen and that's because in Japan funerals are incredibly expensive
it's mainly cremation and it costs a lot of money
the average funeral in Japan is around
2 million yen which is around you know twenty thousand dollars and includes such things as
transport and the mortuary fee, herse and a taxi or a bus for the beraved family, alter, coffin, flowers
funeral goods, the portrait of the deceased person, arbitrary notice cremation application and other
official document applications, the cremation fee, and so on and so on
If one of the person who gets
the vaccination should become disabled for one reason or another due to the vaccination that
the government actually yearly pays those people around 5,056,800 yen per year um to support
them and that's because like this this disease has been spreading all over the world and they'll
deal with this matter as a primal thing and want to make sure that people once the vaccinations
are rolling out properly, most of the people are actually taking them
While a lot of vaccinations
all over the world have already been happening such as in the uk and such Japan is just starting
out and some medical workers are just starting to get vaccinated so it's pretty new at this point
in time however the media is trying to pick up one or two odd cases where things went wrong and
cause a lot of i'd say like a negative image and make a couple people very worried which
other people then criticize and such so the likelihood of quite a lot of people are saying
i'm not quite sure whether I want to get myself vaccinated and I think the government might be
trying to counteract that by telling them "look even if something goes wrong we we will cover
your family" at least so... these are the steps that Japan is doing every country is different
your country is probably different too so let us know down in the comments will you get vaccinated
yes or no and if so why let us know in the comments down below I know this was a bit more of
a serious topic we are going to find out more in the future so far uh it looks like very far
away until we actually can get our vaccinations so until then we have to stay stay healthy be careful
and you also please stay healthy be careful and i'll catch you soon for more news here
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