http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/12/magazine/a-new-japanese-nationalism.html
By IAN BURUMA; Ian Buruma is cultural editor of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review and the author of ''Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes.''
Published: April 12, 1987
IN A STUDENT AREA OF Tokyo called Takadanobaba, behind a peculiar sculpture showing a nude Marilyn Monroe about to pounce on a sumo wrestler, lies the office of Kunio Suzuki, leader of a ''spiritual movement'' called the Issuikai.
The group produces a monthly paper called Reconquista, which aims to reconquer what Suzuki thinks has been lost: the pure Japanese spirit. On the wall of Suzuki's tiny office hang pictures of Emperor Hirohito in uniform, snapped sometime during the 1930's, and of Yukio Mishima, the ultranationalist writer who committed seppuku, a form of ritual suicide, in 1970.
Suzuki is a quiet man in his early 40's, casually dressed, more like a research fellow than a right-wing activist. He receives many fan letters from young women, who profess to admire his romantic spirit.
He explained that ''because of biased textbooks'' many people of his generation felt guilty about the Japanese role in World War II, ''and people who did better than I did at school all joined the left-wing student movement.'' He concluded that there was something wrong with Japanese education. He also worries about the spiritual state of most Japanese, ''who spend their time reading comics and watching TV,'' but he conceded they were probably quite content. A young member of the group, who had been engrossed in a book on terrorism, suddenly broke his silence to exclaim that it was all America's doing: ''They want us to be weak. That is why they rigged our education system. To stop Japan from being a major power.''
''We have become like a timid monkey that cannot even raise the possibility of war,'' Mr. Kobayashi wrote in ''On War,'' which has sold nearly a million copies.
Later, he picked up on the same theme: ''Only Japan refuses to recognize its own justness. Is this because its people have turned into mice with electrodes stuck into their head? Remove the electrodes, Japan! There was justice in Japan's war! We must protect our grand fathers' legacy!''
↓の西尾さんの発言は、さすが「Now he has become their guru」と呼ばれるだけのことはあります。
''Why should Japan be the only country that should teach kids -- 12- to 15-year-old kids -- bad things about itself?'' said Kanji Nishio, a leader of the Create New History group. ''I think it is ridiculous, and very sad and tragic that Japan cannot write its own patriotic history. We lost the war, and a fantasy was born that by talking bad about yourself, you can strengthen your position. I call that masochistic.''
Mr. Nishio, a professor of history at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, has long been active in right-wing intellectual circles, but he never had much impact until his movement associated itself with Mr. Kobayashi and younger popular authors and celebrities.
Now he has become their guru, saying for example that China fabricated the Nanjing massacre to stir nationalist sentiment and that the United States deliberately snared Japan into war.
西村幸祐 @kohyu1952 · 4時間前
今から60年前にMiles Davisがルディ・バン・ゲルダーの家のスタジオで録音した演奏が3年後の1959年に「Workin」というアルバムで発売された。その中から珠玉のバラードを聴こう。CBSと契約したので発売不可能だったのか？
Miles Davis - It Never Entered My Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdA5J4yOPck
