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At the present time 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 liinistry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Welfare and Ministry
of Bducation; and who successfully kept us from the patients even while he
was out of the country.
To his Japanese medical enemies, it must be strange
indeed thet the United Sticcs rewards him with an official welcome.
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If there is any medical figure who mignt be strong enough to try to
cppose Ur. Tsuzuki, it would be Dr. Kobayashi of the Japanese National
institute of Health.
His power seems to be directly proportional to the
bucget of the KIH - both dwindling with she resurgence under the peace
treet; of the old Tokyo Imperial University group (Tokyo University Hospital).
The Th was established by SCAF decree on 21 hay 1947.
It seems to have been
tne idea of Brig. Gen. Sems, who set it up through the Ministry of Welfare.
By cecree, he ordered helf of Tokyo University Institute for Infectious
Disecses 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 gust undoubtedly be antagonistic to the
The idea of Dr. Sams was a fine one, since medicine in Japan during
orld War Il was stagnant.
The huge problems of social welfare and public
health were not even realized let alone attacked.
Even nowthe level of
Japanese medicine appears to be of the caliber seen in Germany between 1900
and orld War I.
So set up, the NIH was to have these main functions: