The following is from a conversation between Mr. Shimada Yoichi and Ms. Iiyama Akari. The book, released on February 1st, became a bestseller and is scheduled to be reprinted. 
It is a must-read, not only for the people of Japan but for people all over the world.
Preamble omitted.

The Human Rights Council is better off without it.
Shimada.　
In Japan, there is still a strong belief in the UN.
However, with its veto power held by China and Russia, the UN is an organization destined to become dysfunctional.
Furthermore, more and more member states have succumbed to China's bribes in recent years.
Iiyama.　
And Russia is a permanent member of the Council.
Even if a permanent member of the UN Security Council invades another country militarily, no one can stop it.
It is evident that the UN is entirely dysfunctional, yet in Japan, the UN is still regarded as absolute justice.
We are ruled by the belief that we must never go against the UN.
It is like a disease.
Shimada.　
In the past, Ichiro Ozawa, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) who presided over the nightmarish DPJ administration, stated that he would not cooperate with any U.S. military action that did not have the approval of the UN Security Council, which provoked strong opposition from the U.S. side, who wondered whether Japan as an ally would not make an independent decision or follow the will of China and Russia, which have veto power.
Iiyama.　
What Ozawa is saying makes no sense to me as someone who thinks about international politics.
Shimada.　
Some government officials even said that if Ozawa wanted to scrap the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, he should say so clearly, and the U.S. would have no problem with it.
However, few in the Japanese political world took Ozawa's remarks seriously.
Iiyama　
That means that many people are UN absolutists.
Shimada.　
The Trump administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council in addition to UNESCO.
It came up at a meeting in Japan, and a conservative member of the Liberal Democratic Party said, "It's not right, Mr. Trump, to withdraw from the Human Rights Council, no matter how much it costs. Japan has to complain bitterly." After hearing the criticism, I was reminded again that they need more than this.
Iiyama.　
I wondered, "Do you even know what the Human Rights Council is?
People who know it know that it is an organization for states that violate human rights to defend each other's human rights violations.
I often talk about it, but no one tries to understand.
So, no one in Japan tries to understand the essence of the Human Rights Council or UNESCO, and they assume it is a "good organization."
As for Palestine-related issues, the UN has an agency called UNRWA, but UNRWA is known for employing Hamas supporters and Hamas members, diverting supplies to Hamas, and educating children in hate and terror promotion that "the best thing to do is to kill Israelis."
It has become a problem in Western countries, and the suspension or reduction of aid funds is often debated in parliament.
Japan, however, has been increasing its support funds to UNRWA with impunity.
Shimada.　
When asked, "Is the United Nations useful?" former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, a hard-line conservative, once famously said, "Sometimes Accidentally."
That is the extent of the organization, after all.
In many cases, they engage in activities that are, in effect, support for terrorism.
The U.S. has often led conservatives to suspend contribution payments.
It is a kind of economic sanction for irresponsible behavior.
Japan must believe that the UN is also subject to economic sanctions.　
Even if American conservatives stand up and put economic pressure on the UN, the effect will be diluted because Japan, the third largest contributor to the UN after the U.S. and China, willingly pays its quota.
The Diet should thoroughly scrutinize the activities of the UN's subsidiary organizations, and contributions should be suspended for wasteful projects and projects that support terrorism.
However, almost no Diet members are aware of such a problem.
Iiyama.　
It is true.
It is hopeless.
Shimada　
When people hear about the UN Human Rights Council, they think of it as a respectable body based on its lettering alone, and they give money to it unconditionally.
Iiyama　
The Human Rights Council has 47 member states, and the number of member states changes yearly.
When you look at the members of the Human Rights Council, they are all human rights-violating nations.
They are all covering for each other's human rights violations.　
Some special investigators investigate human rights violations, but in essence, they go to countries where human rights violations are suspected, investigate what is going on there, investigate, and report back to the Human Rights Council.
China, Russia, Iran, and other countries also buy off these special investigators.
They cover for each other's human rights violations and report that Uyghurs are living happily in China.
I wonder how stupid you are to trust such an organization because it has the name "human rights" attached.
Shimada　
It is no exaggeration to say that the Human Rights Council is a collusive body where human rights oppressors make up the majority and rub out each other's wrongdoings.
Since there is an unwritten rule that the Council does not take up human rights issues of the member countries, we can rest assured that once we are in the Council, we are in good hands.
Whenever the Security Council, which has the sole authority to call for sanctions against member countries, tries to take up a human rights issue, China, which has veto power, always insists, "There is the Human Rights Council, so the problem should be handled there.　
If the issue is referred to the Human Rights Council, it will be quietly squashed because of the large number of human rights-suppressing countries.
Of course, even if the Security Council discusses the issue, Russia and China will ultimately veto the resolution, so a resolution on human rights sanctions is unlikely to pass.
Still, if the Security Council takes up the issue, the news value will increase, which will help arouse international public opinion.
Oddly enough, the existence of the Human Rights Council can be abused by China and other countries.
Iiyama.　
It is a strategy, isn't it?
Shimada.　
We could say that the Human Rights Council is a dysfunctional institution.
Iiyama.　
Indeed, that is true.
Even if I tell the fact that the UN Human Rights Council is a collusive organization of human rights violating states, most Japanese people would be perplexed.
They will think, "What are these people talking about?"
There needs to be more awareness of the strange things happening in the various UN agencies.
I mean, nobody knows.
It is a huge problem.
Shimada.　
The withdrawal from UNESCO and the Human Rights Council is often seen as Trump's outburst, but it is not.
U.S. conservatives generally welcomed it.
Incidentally, the Reagan administration also withdrew from UNESCO because of its leftist bias.　
Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on global warming was also not Trump's arbitrary decision but almost the consensus of the Republican Party.
If everything is lumped together as "Trump the idiot did it again," we will lose sight of the thinking of U.S. conservatives, to whom Japan should have a great deal of reference.
Iiyama.　
That is a distortion of the point.