Japan is seen as a country on the cutting edge of technology and medicine and yet its vaccine rollout is pretty grim. Only 4% of the population is vaccinated. All at a time when Japan is set to welcome world athletes for the Tokyo Olympics next month. So what happened? The World’s Patrick Winn explains to host Marco Werman.
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