A contemporary dilemma haunted by history
Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, has lost the vote on his grand scheme to privatise the country’s
post office with its vast savings pool and will go to the polls.
For now, the village-pump communitarian face of Japanese conservatism has won out over anti-bureaucratic,
privatising radicalism. The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn of Japanese savings.
But the snap election next month is likely to focus as much on the dire state of Japan’s relations with China and Korea as on privatisation.
Here at issue is the other face of Japanese conservatism: the reluctance to feel guilty about the war.
The key symbol of that reluctance has been Mr Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japan’s war dead.
There is speculation he might open his election campaign with such a visit on the 60th anniversary of the war’s end next Monday.
Opinion polls show a bare majority think it “wiser” not to go. Mr Koizumi may think bravado and talking tough to the Chinese will win more votes than wisdom.
恐らく森田氏は「The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn of Japanese savings.」
「For now, the village-pump communitarian face of Japanese conservatism has won out over anti-bureaucratic,
privatising radicalism. The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn of Japanese savings.」
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これは直訳すると
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「（参議院で郵政民営化法案が否決される事により）現時点では、日本保守主義における 井戸端共同体的側面村社会の共産主義的な側面(2005/8/25修正）
がアンチ官僚的・民営化改革主義に勝利を収めることが出来た。世界の金融業界が3兆ドルの日本の預金を手に入れるにはもうしばらく待たねばならないだろう」
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さらに超訳すると
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「郵政民営化法案否決のおかげで、今まで財政投融資や国債という非常にクローズドな『井戸端共同体的村社会の共産主義的(2005/8/25修正）』
運用をされていた3兆ドルといわれる郵貯・簡保の金融資産が『開かれた資本主義的世界の金融市場』に流れ込むにはもうしばらく時間がかかるだろう」
