Japan’s NHK apologizes over how suspected COVID vaccine deaths were reported

(Source: The Mainichi)

TOKYO — Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologized on Twitter on May 16 for editing a news program to make it look like some people had died of COVID-19 when in fact the comments used in the show were by people claiming that their family members had died after receiving the coronavirus vaccine.

“Tsunagu kai,” a Kyoto Prefecture-based association of bereaved families of people who died after getting vaccinated against COVID-19, cooperated for the NHK program. According to the group, NHK had requested interviews to “convey the voices of vaccine victims,” and three members from the group sat for interviews on May 13.