On the Japanese side, the Asahi Shimbun published an article in the Tiansheng Renyu column, shouting loudly - "Autumn is the time when the number of psychopaths and perverts is surging, and every year it makes the society in crisis, and this time Ambassador Reischauer was stabbed, and it was the mentally ill who did it, so that these dangerous people can move freely in society will become a big problem." Mentally ill persons should not be treated with care under criminal law. ”

The next day, the Asahi Shimbun published another editorial, saying that "mental patients should be detected early and sent to the hospital early, and there are not enough psychiatric hospital beds in Japan, only 11% of all patients, while in the United States it is more than 50%." This editorial had a huge social impact, and in response to the amendment of the Mental Health Law to require greater management of the mentally ill, mental hospitals were set up all over Japan, and the agitated Japanese caught madmen all over the country, and there were not a few cases of someone being dragged into a mental hospital because he wanted to do something.

But this madman kills people, and he's also a Japanese madman, isn't he? For the Japanese, it is really incomprehensible why this mentally disturbed teenager would seek a US minister of the rank of emperor to kill. At this time, it was the eve of the change of US policy toward Japan, and the Japanese side was deeply afraid that the matter would become a big problem, so Hayakawa, chairman of the State Public Safety Commission, immediately resigned, and even the emperor's family came forward to express their condolences to the injured Ambassador Reischauer.

The hapless Dr. Reischauer was indeed generous, and the day after the operation, he half-jokingly said: "Although I was born in Japan, I have no Japanese blood in my body, and this time I have lost a lot of Japanese blood, and I should be regarded as a brother who is related to the Japanese blood." ”

But the matter is far from over, after the case, Ambassador Reischauer was sent back to Hawaii to recuperate, and after landing, how did the American doctors think that the ambassador felt that the color was wrong – why did Dr. Lai turn yellow? Yes, the Japanese are of the yellow race, but they can't be the Japanese ambassador for a few days and come back with yellow skin, right? MacArthur had been there for years and hadn't seen him change color, huh?

As soon as I inquired about the blood of the Japanese who had been transfused – the blood of the transfused Japanese would turn yellow, but it was a new thing in medicine....alas, no, why did this doctor not only have yellow skin, but also yellow eyes. Like a cat? This...... It's hepatitis, right?

Sure enough, Dr. Reischauer really had hepatitis, and the reason was because of the blood transfusion in Japan. Is there a hepatitis virus in the blood transfused to the ambassador?! Now the Americans are not doing it – you said that the assassination was done by a mental illness, but what about this hepatitis? This is clearly premeditated murder! The emperor of the United States is angry. Japan's big and small officials suddenly trembled, and immediately investigated strictly, who ...... Who...... Who is so bold as to dare to poison the American prince?

The question is easy to find out – in fact, the answer is known to Japanese people without guessing, and there is no need to investigate it at all. For hepatitis or other strange diseases caused by blood transfusion, the Japanese people were already boiling with resentment at that time. However, the Japanese government has been hiding its ears and turning a blind eye. It turned out that at that time, 98% of the blood in the Japanese blood bank came from the blood selling of blood head organizations. According to the Asahi Shimbun investigation, due to the era of the system of paid blood purchase, a large number of "blood banks" controlled by the triad have emerged in Japan, which specifically organize lower-class workers and vagrants to donate blood for profit. As a result, many people have become "blood sellers". Many of these people are addicts who use syringes indiscriminately and other chronically ill patients who have lost their workforce, so the blood they provide is often a source of bloodborne infectious diseases. Since these people sell blood for a long time, they do not have enough red blood cells in the blood they supply. It is yellow, which is why the Japanese call this blood "yellow blood" – which also implies the irony that transfusions of this blood can cause hepatitis and jaundice.

In the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, when Japanese people went to the hospital for surgery, "hepatitis may be contracted due to blood transfusion" was written into the operation clause, and the hospital was not responsible for this, and the average infection rate of hepatitis after blood transfusion reached 20%. It is not only hepatitis that is infected, such as syphilis, but also blood transfusions. Although Toranomon Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in Japan, it is no better than other hospitals in this regard. Dr. Reischauer was unfortunately diagnosed with hepatitis B.

Before Reischauer was "hepatitised", although the infected Japanese patients hated it, the "blood bank" was both a source of money for the underworld. It is also complicated with the interests of the hospital. At that time, the Japanese medical profession made its own judgment, so that all accusations were helpless in front of unscrupulous experts. Japan's book "Showa History of 100 Million People" commented that "before the assassination of the ambassador, there were many lawsuits in Japan, all of which were due to the fact that the blood banks of major hospitals in Japan were controlled by blood heads, and they organized people to sell blood to make a profit, resulting in the emergence of unhealthy blood sources under such a system." It has also caused an epidemic of bloodborne diseases such as hepatitis. Although bloodborne infectious diseases in Japan have caused a lot of problems, the Ministry of Health and Welfare is inextricably linked to hospitals, and it is inconceivable that hospitals should investigate such a matter as if they were reporting themselves. So, despite the magnitude of the problem, public opinion and experts in Japan have been suppressing the truth about the spread of bloodborne infectious diseases. ”

It's just that the U.S. ambassador to Japan was infected, and this time, I really can't hide it. Moreover, the victim was Ambassador Reischauer, who was extremely friendly to Japan, making it difficult for the whole of Japan to accept their responsibilities and feelings. The Japanese generally regard the Reischauer hepatitis infection incident as a national shame.

It seems to be humorous that the assassination of the U.S. minister has led to the rapid development of psychiatric treatment in Japan, and the vigorous rectification of the blood product problem. (Sadly, poor Ambassador Reischauer, who never got better for his hepatitis and who chose euthanasia in 1990 due to chronic hepatitis!) ）

No matter how the Japanese deal with this matter, Tang Ning, Weidemeyer, and others have made a big fuss about this matter, criticizing Japan for urgently improving both social order and government enforcement, and that it does not have the ability to completely let go and develop on its own, and can only provide limited support, and must maintain the influence of the United States in Japan.

Unfortunately, the final result did not satisfy Downing, and in the end, the U.S. Congress did not pass a decision to support the independence of the Ryukyus, but fortunately did not agree to return the management of the Ryukyus to Japan, but continued to be entrusted by the Allies until the situation in the Far East was clear.

In terms of economic policy, although the Japanese domestic chaebol was no longer suppressed and began to vigorously support the Japanese economy, it still imposed strict restrictions on special industries such as military production, and began to encourage American businessmen to go to Japan for business activities. (To be continued.) )