''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
Fallacies in the Allied Nations' Historical Perception As Observed by a British Journalist (英語) ペーパーバック – 2016/11/18
Henry Scott Stokes (著)
内容紹介
In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he held such a view as well before arriving in Japan as a foreign correspondent. Mr. Scott-Stokes writes of his transformation, of uncritical acceptance of the western colonialist s version of the Greater East Asian War, the so-called Pacific War, to realization of its absolute vacuousness. [The Japanese], he states, were supposed to simply accept, without any criticism or opposition whatsoever, the noble wisdom of civilization [the verdicts of the Tokyo Trials]. Mindless parroting of historical fabrications by modern Japanese suggests a loss of national consciousness, of what it means to be Japanese, as Yukio Mishima expressed in his discussions with Mr. Scott-Stokes. Japan lost her independence to America and is merely a protectorate and not a nation with her own culture and history. Japanese people need to take it upon themselves to change this situation. Mr. Stokes mother-in-law, however, wryly commented that today s Japanese are cowards, so it will take another 200 or 300 years."
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Henry Scott Stokes さんの、歴史認識における日本擁護論の英語版が出ているようです。
こういう英語での発信は、これからますます重要になってきます。
