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The Japanese government could not immediately be reached for comment on the Lancet report. Kei Tamura, deputy director of the Health Ministry's immunisation office, said in an interview in December that"there is a sort of inner conflict in that we are not aggressively, proactively recommending it, but I do think it's better to take it".
Uptake was swift when the vaccine was introduced in Japan in 2009, with immunisation reaching about 70 per cent in adolescent girls.
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