# Source note β€” Japan post-vaccination death records / Murakami / Instagram Reel Date: 2026-06-22 Managing Expectations Health source-check ## Original social source - Instagram Reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ43VxjxDM9/ - Shared URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ43VxjxDM9/?igsh=MWo5eGNmNzQxYnB6eg== - Account/channel: mommavspharma - Uploader from metadata: π—žπ—”π—¬π—Ÿπ—˜π—˜ 𝗠𝗔π—₯π—œπ—˜οΌ©π‘Ήπ’π’π’• π‘ͺ𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 π‘·π’“π’‚π’„π’•π’Šπ’•π’Šπ’π’π’†π’“ - Metadata title: Video by mommavspharma - Duration: 82.233 seconds - Upload date from metadata: 20260622 - Local metadata: `jr-source-check-instagram-metadata-2026-06-22.json` - Local transcript: `jr-source-check-instagram-transcript-2026-06-22.txt` ## Visible screenshot / caption claim The user-provided screenshots and metadata caption claim: - β€œJapan just released a bombshell study comparing the deaths of 18 Million People, Covid Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated.” - Quote attributed to Dr. Murakami: β€œThe more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die.” - Claim that no noticeable spike occurred among the unvaccinated. - Claim that vaccinated deaths peak especially 90–120 days after the shot. - Claim that a graph titled β€œNumber of days from final vaccination to death and number of deaths” shows that as the number of vaccine doses increases, the death peak appears sooner. - Call-to-action: β€œComment GOLD below for my vaccine detox protocol.” Full metadata caption: ```text Japan just released a bombshell study comparing the deaths of 18 Million People, Covid Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated After reviewing the data, a top professor warned: β€œThe more doses you get, the sooner you’re likely to die.” According to Dr. Murakami, there was no noticeable spike in deaths among the unvaccinated. But among the vaccinated, a clear peak emerged-especially between 90 and 120 days after the shot. β€œA significant peak forms at three or four months,” he said, pointing to the vaccine as the likely cause. β€œIt’s probably due to the vaccine’s influence, with adverse reactions occurring leading to death.” Then came a graph that was impossible to ignore. It showed a clear pattern: the more vaccine doses a person received, the sooner they died after their final shot. The title translates to: β€œNumber of days from final vaccination to death and number of deaths.” The note on the right reads: β€œAs the number of vaccine doses increases, the peak in deaths appears sooner.” Each line represents people grouped by the final dose they received before death. In other words, those counted under the third dose curve had received three shots and died before receiving a fourth. What stood out most was the steep green spike representing deaths after the third dose. Not only was it the highest, but it also appeared earlier, around 90 to 120 days. Comment GOLD below for my vaccine detox protocol πŸ’‰β¬‡οΈ ``` The audio transcript of the Reel is an older masked healthcare-worker clip, not a narration of the study. It contains no detailed study explanation. ## Primary source located Zenodo record: - URL: https://zenodo.org/records/18649880 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18649880 - Published: February 16, 2026 - Version: v1 - Resource type: Preprint - Title: `Citizen volunteers' disclosure request and web database for post-vaccination deaths among 4 million mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Japan: A massive wave of deaths occurring months after vaccination, amplified and prolonged by frequent dosing` - Authors/creators listed on Zenodo: Hiroshi Arakawa; Takayasu Hamao; Disclosure Request Team of United Citizens for Stopping mRNA Vaccines and Yukoku Union; Yasufumi Murakami. - Public database named in record: https://stop-mrna.sakura.ne.jp/db/home_en.php Zenodo files downloaded locally for review: - `Arakawa et al. Disclosure request.pdf` β€” 23 pages. - `Arakawa et al. Disclosure request Figures.pdf` β€” 7 pages. - `Arakawa et al. Disclosure request supplementary Figures.pdf` β€” 8 pages. ## What the preprint itself says From the abstract/description: - Citizen volunteers collected data from municipalities. - Dataset used for statistical analysis: 17,545,662 doses administered to 4,025,948 individuals. - It says mortality rates sharply increased several months after vaccination. - It says multiple doses correlated with increased mortality and that each additional dose led to earlier deaths and prolonged periods of elevated mortality. - It estimates approximately 3.89 million Japanese individuals died within one year of vaccination between 2021 and 2024. - It also says this figure β€œdoes not necessarily represent the number of people who died directly from the COVID-19 vaccination.” Important methods details: - Requests were submitted to 191 municipalities out of roughly 1,700. - 57 municipalities disclosed information enabling analysis. - Registered: 4,100,806 vaccine recipients and 17,647,512 doses. - Statistical analysis: 4,025,948 recipients and 17,545,662 doses. - Database recorded 221,014 post-vaccination deaths as of November 2025. - The authors state data quality varied by municipality and potential biases may persist due to varying data quality, inconsistent reporting standards, and incomplete information. - The paper says ChatGPT was used to generate aggregation scripts and website source code. Crucial limitation quoted/paraphrased: - The discussion says: β€œAs a limitation of our disclosure request, we were unable to obtain the mortality data for the unvaccinated population itself, nor could we obtain data comparing healthy individuals with those who were not. Consequently, it was difficult to employ standard epidemiological methods comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals or healthy and unhealthy individuals.” This limitation directly conflicts with the Instagram framing that the study cleanly compared β€œ18 million people, vaccinated vs. unvaccinated.” ## Peer-reviewed context sources checked ### PubMed PMID 36371366 β€” Vaccine, 2022 Title: `A post-marketing safety assessment of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination for serious adverse outcomes using administrative claims data linked with vaccination registry in a city of Japan.` - Used administrative claims database linked with vaccination registry in a Japanese city. - Evaluated serious outcomes and all-cause mortality 21 days after vaccination. - Adjusted cohort and modified self-controlled case series designs. - Conclusion: β€œThe findings suggested that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was generally safe, whilst a signal of pulmonary embolism following the first dose... was observed.” ### PubMed PMID 38077667 β€” Cureus, 2023 Title: `Analysis of the Association Between BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination and Deaths Within 10 Days After Vaccination Using the Sex Ratio in Japan.` - Descriptive analysis of reported deaths after BNT162b2 using MHLW-published data. - The conclusion says vaccination may influence deaths during the short risk period, but also notes a cohort study in Japan found no significant increase in all-cause mortality owing to vaccination and that this supports vaccine safety. - It emphasizes that non-detection of a significant all-cause mortality increase does not mean vaccine-related deaths are nonexistent. ### Japan excess deaths dashboard - URL: https://exdeaths-japan.org/en/ - Useful context: Japan’s excess-deaths dashboard tracks observed/expected weekly and annual deaths, but it does not by itself identify cause of death or prove vaccine causality. ## Evidence labels for public article Supported: - The Instagram caption is based on a real Zenodo preprint/source record. - Yasufumi Murakami is listed among creators. - The preprint claims delayed post-vaccination mortality waves and dose-related timing patterns. - Japan excess mortality is a real topic worth transparent study. Misleading / overstated: - β€œ18 million people” is wrong/misleading. The Zenodo record says 17,545,662 doses in the statistical analysis, among 4,025,948 individuals. - The preprint is a Zenodo preprint, not a peer-reviewed journal article. - The preprint itself says it did not obtain the unvaccinated mortality data needed for standard vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated comparison. - A days-from-final-vaccination-to-death histogram cannot by itself prove causation. - The β€œvaccine detox protocol” call-to-action is a sales/engagement funnel, not scientific evidence. Reader-protection line: Do not use a social media Reel or detox protocol as medical advice. Decisions about vaccination history, adverse events, cancer/heart symptoms, or medications/supplements should be discussed with qualified clinicians.