The YamatoQ Group Headquarters In Shizuoka Which Said 'Vaccination For Murder' Was Raided By The Police

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JAKARTA - Police searched the group's headquarters claiming to be Japan's branch of the US conspiracy cult QAnon in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Earlier, their members were arrested last week for forcing their way into the local coronavirus mass vaccination site earlier this year.

Eight members of the YamatoQ group, including one of its leaders, were arrested Thursday, December 1 on suspicion of a foul after they infiltrated a vaccination site in Yaizu in central Japan prefecture in March.

According to police, those arrested shouted, "Vaccination is an act of murder".

The prefectural police searched the group's head office in Fukuroi as reported by Japan Today.

Another leader and several other group members were indicted earlier this year on charges of breaking into a place offering coronavirus vaccinations for children in Tokyo in April.

The group has been conducting a campaign against COVID-19 inoculation in various parts of Japan, holding rallies and saying that the novel coronavirus does not exist. In March, they stopped vaccinations at locations including the Tokyo Dome.

They also protested what they said was a lack of transparency about the composition of the coronavirus vaccine and what they accused was dangerous.

YamatoQ said on its website that it was Japan's wing QAnon, a movement that spreads internet conspiracy theories to support former US President Donald Trump. The movement is said to have gained followers in many countries.