The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is composed of only 18 unelected individuals unknown even in their own countries. Despite having no knowledge of Japan’s history, culture, or society, they have repeatedly issued “human rights recommendations” against Japan. Japan’s media, especially Asahi Shimbun and NHK, have concealed this reality due to postwar ideological biases. The UN itself has become a second-rate organization dominated by authoritarian regimes, particularly China. Japanese citizens must now confront this truth.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is composed of only eighteen members whom ordinary citizens around the world have never even heard of.
They know nothing about the realities of Japan’s history, culture, or society, nor do they represent the democratic will of any nation.
Nevertheless, they have persistently issued “human rights recommendations” against Japan.
Asahi Shimbun and NHK have never reported these facts and, clinging to the self-denigrating mindset implanted during the occupation, have continued to praise the UN’s fictitious authority.
It is time for the Japanese people to recognize that the UN itself is a second-rate caricature of an organization dominated by authoritarian states such as China.

Moreover, I state unequivocally that these eighteen individuals cannot possibly know anything about the actual circumstances of Japan.
August 19, 2018.
Changing Faces of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Taisuke Komatsu.
IMADR Geneva Office, UN Advocacy.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of Japanese people do not know who this man is.
I learned for the first time from his article that the UN CERD Committee consists of only eighteen members.

If Asahi Shimbun and NHK were respectable media outlets comparable to those of other developed countries—media that claim to represent their nations or function as public broadcasters—they would have immediately investigated what kind of organization constantly issues recommendations condemning their own country and would have strongly criticized it.
Asahi and NHK, however, not only failed to provide such basic and necessary reporting but concealed the committee’s true nature from the public entirely.

This is because they remain trapped in the self-denigrating ideology implanted by the GHQ occupation.
At the root lies a pernicious, immature, and treasonous mindset that views the nation as always evil and themselves as inherently correct, a mindset that has transformed them into concentrated masses of anti-Japanese ideology.

They are the very embodiment of true foolishness.
What they possess is nothing more than pseudo-moralism and political correctness.
Believing themselves enlightened, they imagined—together with the UN, which is dominated by authoritarian regimes such as China and by left-wing groups—that they were somehow educating the Japanese people.
They failed to realize the extent of their own ignorance and childishness.

These eighteen individuals—so-called scholars and experts—are people whom ninety-nine point nine percent of the citizens in their own countries do not know.
Such people, for years, have presumptuously judged Japan, a nation that—along with the United States—has achieved one of the world’s highest levels of freedom and democracy.
Japan in particular has never sought hegemony over developing nations but has continuously provided enormous financial and technical assistance purely for the improvement of their living standards.

Yet these eighteen second-rate individuals, not elected by any citizenry—not even by the citizens of their own countries—issue frequent human-rights recommendations to Japan, a nation of 120 million people and effectively the world’s second-greatest democracy and economic power.

I state emphatically that these eighteen people cannot possibly know anything about Japanese history.
Likely, they do not even know the realities of their own countries.
Such is the nature of second-rate individuals.

A truly first-rate person would never issue recommendations about countries whose daily life, culture, and civilization they know nothing about.
People and media who repeatedly engage in such laughable conduct are second-rate, plain and simple.

Thus, eighteen second-rate individuals presume to lecture Japan, a nation that has achieved one of the world’s highest levels of culture and civilization.
The UN is, in truth, a cartoonish organization—on par with North Korea, the cartoon nation of the twenty-first century.
Because the UN was founded on a fundamentally flawed structure, it is impossible for truly first-rate individuals to exist within it.

No truly first-rate scholar or individual would wish to work in such a place.
For my part, I want no association with it whatsoever.

Only genuine fools—those who believe that simply bearing the name “United Nations” confers some form of prestige—would desire to work in such a second-rate organization.
It is an institution that pursues no truth whatsoever, dominated instead by low-grade nations and scheming dictators.

In name only, it calls itself the United Nations, but in essence it functions just like another organ of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship.
Given this, it is impossible for any first-rate individuals to exist within it.