Someone in Japan did these things, it wasn’t him. Shinzo Abe resigned almost three months before the first vaccine was approved and something like a year before Japan started using ivermectin.
Edit-a little sauce
September 2020 Abe resigns
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/shinzo-abe-resigns-japan-prime-minister-6573454/
February 2021 Covid vaccines begin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in_Japan
November 2021 Ivermectin use in Japan
(All the “fact checkers” came out of the woodwork to claim ivermectin was not being used in Japan, so we know it was. )
Someone in Japan did these things, it wasn’t him. Shinzo Abe resigned almost three months before the first vaccine was approved and something like a year before Japan started using ivermectin.