Based on Shigeki Miyajima’s article in the Sankei Shimbun, this piece criticizes opposition parties that prioritize anti-Abe politics and partisan interests even during the global coronavirus crisis, irresponsible experts and television commentators, and the South Korean administration that turns Japan’s entry restrictions into anti-Japanese political material. Referring to Sakyo Komatsu’s “Virus” and the film “Shin Godzilla,” it questions the true nature of politicians in a state of emergency.

March 20, 2020
It is also a perfect opportunity to identify the “treasonous politicians” who oppose this.
Ah, perhaps the true nature of such people has been obvious from the beginning?
The following is from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.
A well-read friend sent it to me, saying that it was exceptionally interesting.
I, too, laughed out loud at the end.
Shigeki Miyajima
Party interests and partisan tactics in this state of emergency?
What is wrong with the Japanese people, and what is humanity doing?
Why are they only now saying “pandemic”?
Already, throughout the world except for Antarctica, the number of people infected with, and dying from, the new coronavirus continues to increase.
Haven’t we heard this somewhere before?
I apologize that it is different from the real new influenza and SARS, but it is exactly like “Virus,” the science fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu that was also made into a film.
A pandemic throws the world into panic, and not only the economy, but also public order and social order collapse.
Eventually, except for the observation team members of various countries left in Antarctica, humanity becomes extinct….
No, I have no intention of making light of this new coronavirus or mocking those who have unfortunately become infected.
However, I am angry that this uproar has become a stage on which doctors and scholars irresponsibly assert theories they blindly believe in, and complete amateurs who are not even experts openly criticize the Japanese government’s response on television and elsewhere.
I am angry at opposition parties that, even in a crisis of all humanity, give priority to the party interests and tactics of “anti-Abe administration” politics.
I laugh at the South Korean administration, which, even when Japan belatedly imposed entry restrictions to protect the safety and health of Japanese people, tries to use that as anti-Japanese material for electoral advantage.
In “Virus” as well, politicians and military men appear who try to prioritize national interests even in the face of an unknown virus that could lead to the extinction of humanity.
Even in Antarctica, closed off by ice, egoism and conspiracies swirl.
To the editorial board members of major newspapers who spewed “pleasant” on Twitter, and to all the commentators of major television networks, why do you not introduce “Virus,” which is now the most timely work of all?
Wise readers, you have seen the film “Shin Godzilla,” haven’t you?
There, too, appear scholars who take no responsibility, and a commander, in other words a prime minister, who worsened the situation because he made a mistake in the initial response.
Now, the real Japan is in a state of emergency.
It is time to face an unknown disease with resolve.
It is also a perfect opportunity to identify the “treasonous politicians” who oppose this.
Ah, perhaps the true nature of such people has been obvious from the beginning?
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