At the present bine while being feted in the United States, he still shrewdly
uses the press to keep himself before the Japanese public.
Here is the man,
who in our viewpoint, led the opposition to the American team's examining
the Fukuryu Maru crew; who, we believe, was capable and able enough to ignore
the pressure of the American doctors, the U.S. diplomatic corps in Japan, and
the Japanese ilinistry of Foreign 4ffairs, linistry of Velfare and Ministry
of Bducation; and who successfully kept us from the patients even while he
vas out of the country.
To his Japanese medical enemies, it must be strange
indeed thet the United Statcs rewards him with an official welcome.
If there is any medical figure who might be strong enough to try to
oppose Dr. Tsuzguki, it would be Dr. Kobayashi of the Japanese National
Institute of Health.
His power seems to be directly proportional to the
budget ofthe NIH - both dwindling witn the resurgence under the peace
treety of the old Tokyo Imperial University group (Tokyo University Hospital).
The KIH was established by SCAP decree on 21 hay 1947.
It seems to have been
the idea of Brig. Gen. Seams, who set it up through the ltinistry of vVelfare.
By decree, he ordered half of Tokyo University Institute for Infectious
Diseases to be renovated and equipped.
The animals, part of the professional
staff, and the technicians, were to be supplied from Tokyo University; this
was also by decree.
NIH.
Tokyo University must undoubtedly be antagonistic to the
The idea of Dr. Sams was-a fine one, since medicine in Japan during
orld Var II was stagnant.
The huge problems of social welfare and public
health were not even realized let alone attacked,
“ven nowthe level of
Japenese medicine appears to be of the caliber seen in Germany between 1900
and orld Ver I.
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