This article introduces a Sankei Shimbun editorial of May 18, 2020, arguing that Japan should produce the next WHO Director-General. It discusses the WHO’s exclusion of Taiwan, Director-General Tedros’s pro-China stance, South Korea’s propaganda, Japan’s strength in health and medical fields, and the need to normalize the WHO.

2020-05-18
That is because those who have stopped the progress of the turntable of civilization, and as a result have brought about a catastrophe such as this one, are the very people who have continued to demean Japan and, unbelievably, are under the operations of China and the Korean Peninsula.
The following is from today’s Sankei Shimbun editorial titled “Let a Director-General Be Born from Japan.”
Reading this article, I understood why South Korea’s Moon Jae-in began propaganda claiming that South Korea had “become a world leader in virus countermeasures.”
In its response to this virus disaster, and in the condition of the country including the culture and civilization of its people, Japan has unintentionally proved that it is the number one country in the world.
The only people who do not know this are those making a living at newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun and television broadcasters such as NHK, which are controlled by people who are masses of masochistic historical views and people who are masses of anti-Japanese thought such as Korean residents in Japan, along with opposition-party political operators, so-called human-rights lawyers, so-called cultural figures, and so-called citizens’ groups.
South Korean propaganda is, as always, incorrigible, but the attitude of the aforementioned Japanese people, especially the media, is far too pathetic.
But we can no longer merely say that.
That is because those who have stopped the progress of the turntable of civilization, and as a result have brought about a catastrophe such as this one, are the very people who have continued to demean Japan and, unbelievably, are under the operations of China and the Korean Peninsula.
Now I have almost lost the will to watch NHK’s Sunday Sports, which I had watched until now.
A friend who is one of the finest readers and also a man of keen insight cut down the laughter of Ogoe, who serves as host, in a single stroke, saying, “It is not good laughter. Because that is the laughter of someone with something hidden in his stomach…”
To put it very simply, it is a program that is the ultimate in hypocritical pretence.
What he has hidden in his stomach is the attitude he displayed when he was the host of Watch 9, openly saying within the program such things as “Japan forcibly took Koreans away” and “I truly respect Kang Sang-jung,” and the fact that in places of nighttime eating and drinking he says things like “That administration, the Abe administration, should resign immediately”; he is a failed man whose only claim is that he graduated from the University of Tokyo, and although he sells the fact that he was in the baseball club, in reality he is second-rate in everything, both academics and baseball.
Such a man effectively controls the news division of NHK, which in substance is Japan’s state broadcaster.
And on every occasion, they praise Germany and underestimate Japan.
They use so-called cultural figures who have the same foolish minds as commentators and brainwash viewers.
That is the attitude that today’s NHK carries out day and night.
That attitude alone is nothing other than service to China and South Korea.
The annual general assembly of the World Health Organization, the WHO, will be held on the 18th and 19th by videoconference.
The focal point is Taiwan’s participation as an observer.
The one refusing Taiwan’s participation is China, which regards Taiwan as part of its own country, and WHO Director-General Tedros, who has accepted China’s demands.
Online signatures calling for the resignation of Tedros, who should be leading the world in measures against the new coronavirus, have exceeded one million, saying that he “underestimated the situation out of consideration for China and brought about the spread of infection.”
Tedros received strong backing from China in the 2017 election for director-general.
His home country, Ethiopia, receives a large amount of economic assistance from China for railway projects and other ventures.
U.S. President Trump decided to temporarily suspend funding to the WHO on the grounds that its virus response was pro-China, and has repeatedly criticized it as “China’s puppet.”
If the command tower lacks credibility, victory in the fight against the virus is uncertain.
Nevertheless, nothing will change if one only criticizes.
The Group of Seven advanced countries, the G7, should put forward a candidate in the next director-general election in 2022 and fulfill a role in normalizing the WHO.
Producing a director-general from Japan is also a powerful option.
Japan is at one of the world’s highest levels in the fields of health and medicine, including its universal health-insurance system and pharmaceutical development.
It also has abundant experience in medical support in developing countries, and it has financial strength.
Its relationship with the United States, the largest funding contributor, is also good.
The elements needed to contribute to the health of all humankind are in place.
Japan’s domestic measures against the new coronavirus are still in progress, but it has the necessary people, headed by Takeshi Kasai, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
The WHO is also the organization in which, 32 years ago, a Japanese person became the head of an international organization for the first time.
In the 2017 election, candidates had already appeared and begun activities in the autumn of the year before voting.
Already, it is being reported that South Korea is moving to put forward a candidate in the next director-general election, claiming that it has “earned global recognition for its measures against the new coronavirus.”
If Japan aims for the top post of the WHO, it is never too early to prepare for the election campaign.
It is necessary immediately to establish a command headquarters in the Prime Minister’s Office, for the government to unite as one, and to secure the support of the G7 countries and others.
The fight against the new coronavirus may continue for a long time, and a new virus may attack humankind.
Normalizing the WHO is an essential task.