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(回答先: ＜靖国参拝＞平和国家として歩んできた道と評価…英タイムズ 投稿者 Kotetu 日時 2006 年 8 月 17 日 02:23:09)
Kotetu さん、今日は。これが電子版に載せられているタイムズ社説の全文です。これまでの経過を説明して次のように結んでいます。原文自体が英文読解力の関係か、小生には回りくどい表現に思えました。
Best of all might be to declare a “temporary morator-ium” on such visits until the Japanese people reach a consensus on how to honour those who died for their country — a process that could easily take a decade or more. The imminent change of prime minister is a opportunity to take the heat out of history.
最善の方法は、日本人がお国のために死んだ人々に敬意を表する方法はどうあるべきかについてコンセンサスに達するまで、そのような訪問に関しては「一時的なモラトリアム」を宣言することだろう ― 円滑に進んでも10年あるいはそれ以上かかるプロセスとなるだろうが。首相の交代が差し迫っているが、歴史から熱を取り去る好機である。
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2314776.html
Leading articles
The Times August 16, 2006
Ghosts to be laid
Japan needs to diffuse the controversy over the Yasukuni shrine
Yasukuni, the name of the Shinto shrine established in the Meiji dynasty to venerate the spirits of the war dead, means “to bring peace to the nation”. There is no reason to doubt the sin- cerity of Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese Prime Minister, when he says that his visits there are not only to honour the dead but to renew his resolve that “Japan must not wage war again” and must tirelessly work for peace. But he also knew that Japan’s neighbours would see it as a provocative gesture if he visited the shrine on August 15, VJ-Day — and to do so, for the first time this has happened since 1985, in his official capacity and in morning dress.
Mr Koizumi is fully aware that the Yasukuni shrine is strongly associated, in the mind of many Japanese as well as in the countries subjected to Japanese conquest and occupation, with the rise of militarism in the early 20th century. In the Second World War, Japanese would bow as they passed its gates and kamikaze pilots wore the shrine’s amulets. The 2,446,532 “eternal souls” enshrined there include not only foot-soldiers and civilians killed in eleven wars, two of them domestic, but 39,000 Taiwanese and Koreans forcibly conscripted into the Japanese imperial armed forces. Worst of all, in 1978 the priests secretly enshrined — to the horror of Emperor Hirohito, it was recently reported — 14 Class-A Japanese war criminals. The private Yushuka war museum within the precincts, modernised as recently as 2002, presents an outrageously distorted exhibition that, dismissing the attack on Pearl Harbor as “a strategic necessity”, blames President Roosevelt for “steering Japan” into war.
Japan’s rewriting of history is callous and contemptible. But China and South Korea are in part to blame. The ferocity of their protests, and the sanctions attached, had turned the issue into a question of whether Japan accepted foreign diktats, making it difficult for Mr Koizumi to back down. Visits to the shrine are hardly the primary test of Japan’s peaceable vocation. Since 1945 Japan has generously contributed international aid and is gradually participating in peacekeeping operations. Japan’s failures to face up to the full horror of its war record would be better addressed by focusing, for example, on the revision of history teaching in schools. The country, however, must take the initiative to defuse this debilitating diplomatic row.
The Government apparently has no power to order the “disenshrinement” of the war criminals. It tried in 1985, and the Shinto priests flatly refused, declaring this to be ritually impossible, though such rituals are open to vastly different interpretations. It could declare that political homage would henceforth be paid at the official war memorial within the Imperial Palace grounds, where Japan’s “unknown soldiers” are interred. Best of all might be to declare a “temporary morator-ium” on such visits until the Japanese people reach a consensus on how to honour those who died for their country — a process that could easily take a decade or more. The imminent change of prime minister is a opportunity to take the heat out of history.
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