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TOKYO: About 50 Japanese supporters of the QAnon movement marched in Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district on Sunday denouncing the increased numbers of deaths they say are related to the COVID-19 vaccine.

The protesters wore caps and flags supporting former US President Donald Trump and his campaign to run again for the presidency.

Two weeks ago, Japan’s Health Ministry said a 1-year-old child who had kidney disease died in February after receiving a third injection of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. This came after a 42-year-old woman was officially recognized as a victim after an injection of the Omicron variant vaccine.

According to the Ministry, the link between the vaccine and the cause of death cannot be established with great certainty, but after the distribution of more than 380 million vaccines, more than 2,000 deaths following vaccinations have been recorded. Only the case of the 42-year-old woman has been officially recognized.

The Yamamoto-Q conspiracy group claims that the so-called Deep State is trying to destabilize the world order and that the Japanese government wants to eliminate its population using Covid vaccines.

In April 2022, members of the QAnon group were arrested after illegally entering a vaccination center in Shibuya in Central Tokyo.

In the United States, the QAnon group was among those accused of organizing the riots in the United States aimed at changing the result of the presidential vote and the attack on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, that reportedly resulted in the deaths of five people, including a policeman.

Since May 2023, the Japanese government has lowered the severity rating of the COVID pandemic by no longer recommending the wearing of masks outdoors and indoors. However, 60 percent of Japanese continue to wear masks outdoors.