It’s not mandatory in Japan. What’s working there is basic public health principles applied diligently and vaccination:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/scicheck-japan-continues-t...

If you read it, you’d learn otherwise. Far from being required, it’s not even approved!

Here’s another article highlighting that the Japanese government is concerned about people mail-ordering it because it’s unapproved:

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/21/national/iverme...

So … care to provide a source for any of your claims? If it’s mandatory, I’m sure it would be easy to point to the official government protocols.

Looks like Ivermectin is recommended The Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association but not mandatory.

Why did you not just search it? You could have found this out for yourself.

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFB25AAL0V20C21A1000000/

Click translate.

That’s much weaker than your original claim that it was mandatory for the entire country, and that story about requesting approval is a year old. If you read the recent information I gave you, note that this approval has not happened.

But it still proved the point that Ivermectin is a commonly regarded treatment for covid.

No, it showed that one guy a year ago said it could be considered. His peers did not agree and year later it's still not approved because the evidence simply doesn't show it having any effect outside of a few flawed studies which have not held up to examination.

You didn’t debunk the 200 members of congress using ivermectin, you didn’t debunk the history of ivermectins use for coronaviruses and you describe chair of Tokyo Medical Association as “some dude”. You didn’t debunk the other poster mentioning New Jersey’s use of ivermectin either.

Do you think you might have a problem here?

I don’t know about Japan, but New Jersey. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G433fa01oMU

Relying toplevel as this is being buried:

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFB25AAL0V20C21A1000000/

Click translate.

Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, proposed emergency use of drugs mainly to prevent the severity of home caregivers in order to respond to the spread of the new coronavirus. He emphasized that antiparasitic drug "Ivermectin" should be administered to people infected with coronavirus because it has shown the effect of preventing severity overseas.

In addition to Ivermectin, the country called for approval for the use of the steroid-based anti-inflammatory drug "dexamethathone". The Ozaki clan said, "(both) there are few side effects. I want the country to consider treatment at the level of the family doctor."

Ivermectin and dexamethasone are prescribed in Japan. However, it has not been approved as a treatment for corona. As of the 8th, there are about 1,600 home recuperators in Tokyo, and about 1,600 people are "adjusted" without deciding where to be hospitalized. It is also a challenge to respond to sudden changes in the condition of home caregivers with mild and asymptomatic patients.

Mr. Ozaki emphasized the number of new cases per day in Tokyo that "removing it to about 100 people is the way to improve the situation from April to June". On the 9th, 412 new cases were confirmed in Tokyo.