This continuation examines the media attacks on Dr. Ryuichi Morishita following the IPO of his biotech venture, criticizes Japanese mass media for slander, and declares the author’s lifelong mission to confront Japan’s philosophical illness through “The Turntable of Civilization,” while urging Morishita to pursue global scientific greatness.

Please devote yourself to your original research, and become ever more a great researcher and medical scientist of world stature. January 1, 2017. This is a continuation of the previous chapter. In the middle section appears the following: “The laboratory of Professor Victor Dzau, where Morishita studied abroad, was filled with the free-spirited atmosphere characteristic of the American West Coast. It was not research for the sake of research, but was clearly aimed at developing treatments that would actually cure diseases. … Omitted. At that time, Dzau opposed Morishita’s return to Japan. He said, ‘You are unlike ordinary Japanese. If you return, your talent will be crushed. If you stay in the United States, I will arrange a professorship for you at some university.’ … Omitted. Just as Dzau predicted, it is customary in this country to hammer down the protruding nail. Two years after AnGes went public, the Mainichi Shimbun reported on its front page: ‘Unlisted shares acquired in advance by five physicians involved in clinical trials at Osaka University—university-originated pharmaceutical venture,’ and other newspapers rushed to follow suit. The articles reported that the professors involved in the clinical research of Collategene had acquired AnGes shares before the IPO and made profits, as if they had done so through improper means. It is easy to imagine that reporters ignorant of economics and industry–academia collaboration wrote these articles based on information provided by people who were jealous of Morishita. … Omitted. The following is a present-time comment. Yesterday, I introduced that very Mainichi Shimbun and that TBS. Those media organizations—which can hardly be described as anything other than traitorous and treasonous in their reporting—were using the mask of righteous defenders to write slanderous articles attacking researchers who were faithfully carrying out the work they should have been doing. My “Turntable of Civilization,” Chapter One, is at this very moment piercing the heart of precisely such mass media. Omitted thereafter. To indict the fundamental philosophical illness of Japan is my role and my life’s work. That is not your task. Please devote yourself to your rightful research, and become ever more a great researcher and medical scientist of global stature. If you have time, by all means criticize medical administration as much as you wish, but leave Japan’s next twenty years to me, who will continue writing for the next forty years.