この映画は主人公の本人が存命中に、しかも制作に直接参加して生まれた。アンジェリーナ・ジョリーはアメリカ人はもとより世界の間で女優などの映画人と同時に人道家として広く知られている。アジア系や黒人系の孤児を養子に取り、旦那のブラット・ピットと共に、わが子として育てていることも事実である。この映画を「だだの作り話」とまったく否定している日本人の厚顔さや醜さ。日本人の発言がいかに信憑性がないか、世界に宣伝しているようなもの。ドイツと違い、太平洋戦争を美化や浄化に必死になっている日本人の姿が、ここでも浮かび上がっていて面白い。
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'Unbroken' causes outrage in Japan as right-wing ultra-nationalists label Angelina Jolie a racist
Calling the biopic of American Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who spent two years in Japanese POW camp, 'a pure fabrication,' nationalists say that the war hero's account of torture at the hands of his captor has never been verified.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 12:39 PM BY Ethan Sacks
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Universal Pictures Japanese right-wing nationalists are up in arms over depictions of torture in the Angelina Jolie-directed biopic, ‘Unbroken.’
Angelina Jolie’s WWII drama “Unbroken” has drawn fire from the Japanese.
Right-wing nationalist groups in the Asian country have slammed the upcoming biopic of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini over its depiction of the torture he endured during his time in a Japanese prison camp ― and labeled Jolie, the film's director, a racist.
At the center of controversy are the sequences in “Unbroken” of Zamperini’s beatings at the hands of an Imperial officer named Mutsuhiro Watanabe ― played by Japanese pop star Miyavi. The emotionally tough scenes are taken straight out of Laura Hillenbrand’s biography of the same name and based on Zamperini’s own account.
“It's pure fabrication," Hiromichi Moteki, the secretary general of the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, told London’s Telegraph.
"If there is no verification of the things he said, then anyone can make such claims," he added. "This movie has no credibility and is immoral."
The movie is based on the biography of the same name about real-life Olympian and war hero, Louis Zamperini, who was tortured by Japanese officers during a two-year ordeal in a POW camp. Universal Pictures The movie is based on the biography of the same name about real-life Olympian and war hero, Louis Zamperini, who was tortured by Japanese officers during a two-year ordeal in a POW camp.
Commentors on social media have called for the government to ban Jolie from entering the country in the future.
Zamperini, who died in July, was a crewmember on a warplane that crashed in the Pacific in May 1943 and drifted in a raft for 47 days with one other survivor before being intercepted by a Japanese warship.
His hellish ordeal as a POW lasted until V-J Day in August 1945.
Miyavi himself has was devastated by the experience of filming the infamous camp scenes.
"It was awful torture for me to hate the other actors," he told Vanity Fair. "I had to have hatred for them. When I had to beat them, I had to think about protecting my family.
"At the same time, I didn't want to be just a bad guy. I wanted to put humanity in this role. (Mutushiro) was both crazy and sadistic, but also weak and traumatized."
U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015, 12:00 PM
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A mushroom cloud billows about one hour after a nuclear bomb was detonated above Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 6 - The most terrible weapon in history - an atomic bomb with more explosive power than 20,000 tons of TNT - was dropped on Japan last night, it was disclosed today as President Truman hurled a new ultimatum at the [Japanese], warning them to surrender or be wiped out.
In revealing the most closely guarded secret of World War II, the President announced in a dramatic statement issued through the White House:
“Sixteen hours ago (7 P.M. Sunday, New York time) an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army base. The bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more power than 2,000 times the blast power of British ‘Grand Slam,' which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare… it is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.”
ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON NAGASAKI IN 1945
The extent of damage from superbomb No. 1 was not immediately learned. A War Department statement said that “reconnaissance planes state that an impenetrable cloud of dust and smoke covered the target area.”
“As soon as accurate details of the result of the bombing become available, they will be released by the Secretary of War,” it added.
Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, published August 7, 1945.
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Atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, published August 7, 1945.
(The Associated Press pointed out that the one atomic bomb dropped on Japan carried a wallop more violent than 2,000 B-29 superfortress normally could hand a city, using the old type TNT bombs. One B-29 ordinarily can deliver about 10 tons of TNT bombs to a target.)
Last night’s bomb hit Hiroshima, on the Inland Sea, on the southeast coast of the main [Japanese] home island of Honshu. Truman warned that others would strike if the [Japanese] did not surrender immediately.
“It was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction,” the President said, “that the ultimatum of July 26 was issued at Potsdam. Their leaders promptly rejected that ultimatum. If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in which numbers and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already aware.”
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War Secretary Stimson revealed that even deadlier atomic bombs will soon be made. “Improvements,” he said, “will be forthcoming shortly which will increase by several fold the present effectiveness” of the terror weapon.
Stimson flatly declared that “we are convinced that Japan will not be in a position to use an atomic bomb in this war,” and added that “it is abundantly clear that the possession of this weapon by the U.S. even in its present form, should prove tremendous aid in the shortening of the war against Japan.”
Here, superimposed on an aerial photo of Manhattan and Long Island City, are the boundaries of Hiroshima (broken white line) first city to feel the effects of the atomic bomb.
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Here, superimposed on an aerial photo of Manhattan and Long Island City, are the boundaries of Hiroshima (broken white line) first city to feel the effects of the atomic bomb.
The use in combat of the single atomic bomb was the culmination of three years of effort by science, industry, and the Army. So closely guarded was the secret of the new weapon that 125,000 workers at three hush-hush plants in Richland, Wash.; Oak Ridge, near Knoxville, Tenn., and near Santa Fe., N.M., never knew what they were producing, in more than two and one-half years.
On the super weapon, which works on an entirely new theory, the U.S., in cooperation with the British, gambled $2,000,000,000 that scientists could smash the atom, thus releasing the deadliest source of power ever discovered. Truman said that “we have spent $2,000,000,000 on the greatest scientific gamble in history and - won.”
The atomic bomb uses uranium as the essential ore in its production. War Secretary Stimson said that “steps have been taken and will continue to be taken to insure adequate supplies of this mineral.”
Race of Scientific Minds.
President Truman’s statement revealed that the bomb, despite its imagination-staggering deadliness, has an “exceedingly small” physical size, which confounded workers at the three atomic bomb plants. “They see great quantities of material going in and they see nothing coming out of these plants,” he said, “for the physical size of the explosive charge is exceedingly small.”
The history of the atomic bomb is also the history of feverish race among Germany’s scientific minds, and the combined scientific minds of the U.S. and Great Britain. The Battle of the Laboratories,” as President Truman called it, “held fateful risks for us as well as the battles of the air, land and sea, and we have now won the battle of the laboratories as we have won the other battles.”
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Nuclear bomb victims are sheltered at the Hiroshima Second Military Hospital's tent relief center at the banks of the Ota River in Hiroshima, Japan, one day after the world's first nuclear bombing.
Prior to 1939, it was an accepted scientific belief that, theoretically, the atom could be smashed to release atomic energy. No one, however, knew any practical method of doing it. By 1942, the Germans, President Truman said, were working 24 hours a day to find a way “to add atomic energy to the other engines of war with which they hoped to enslave the world. But they failed.”
“Beginning in 1940, before Pearl Harbor, scientific knowledge useful in war was pooled between the U.S. and Great Britain, and many priceless helps to our victories have come from that arrangement,” he continued. "Under that general policy the research on the atomic bomb was begun. With American and British scientists working together, we entered the race of discovery against the Germans.”
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The late President Roosevelt and former Prime Minister Churchill, Truman said, agreed that experiments should be conducted in this country, free from bombing attack and threat of invasion.
Highly praising the resultant success of the combined Anglo-American efforts, the President commented: “What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. It was done under high pressure and without failure.”
With use of the shattering new weapon, he added, “we are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city. We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan’s power to make war.”
END OF THE WAR/HIROSHIMA PHOTO PACKAGE(FILES) This file photo dated 10 August 1945 shows two brothers who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima four days earlier. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing 06 August 1945, with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 09 August 1945. Following the bombings, Japan surrendered 02 September 1945 to Allied forces, officially ending World War II, bringing down the curtain on the costliest conflict in history. The 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima will take place with ceremonies in the Japanese city on 06 August 2005. AFP PHOTO/HO/FILES
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This file photo shows smoke billowing 20,000 feet above Hiroshima, Japan while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column.
Truman said he would recommend to Congress establishment of a commission to control production and use of atomic power in the U.S., and that he would “give further consideration and make further recommendations” to Congress as to how atomic power can become a “powerful and forceful influence towards the maintenance of world peace.”
Stimson announced that the man who directed the Army’s $2,000,000,000 job of discovering and perfecting atom-smashing was Major Gen. Leslie R. Groves, formerly of Pasadena, Calif., who now lives here. Groves, for the past three years, has held the title of commanding officer of the “Manhattan Engineering District,” the phony name given the hush-hush project to fool spies.
Many Plants Played Part.
A partial list of industrial firms which contributed “so signally” to the atomic bomb, as given out by Stimson, included:
Du Pont de Nemours & Co., which designed and constructed the mammoth Hanford installations in the State of Washington; a special subsidiary of the M.W. Kellogg Co., of N.Y., which designed one of the plants at Clinton, Tenn.; The J.A. Jones Co., which built the Clinton plant, and the Union Carbide and Carbon Co., which operates it. Other firms listed were the Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Allis-Chalmers, Westinghouse, Chrysler, General Electric and Tennessee Eastman Corp.
Stimson also named a policy committee, with Truman’s approval, to formulate recommendations for postwar organization of atomic power development.
On the committee are Stimson, as chairman; and State Secretary Byrnes; former Undersecretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard; Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton Harvard President Dr. James Conant; M.I.T. President Dr. Karl T. Compton; and George L. Harrison, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., who is now a special consultant to Stimson. He was named alternate chairman of the committee.
Stimson also revealed that a combined policy committee, set up in August, 1943, to expedite production, was staffed by Stimson, Bush and Conant for the U.S.; Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Col. J.J. Llewellin for the United Kingdom; and C.D. Howe, for Canada.
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「日本兵は強く戦い、忍耐深く、戦い方が非常に紳士的だった」。日本のマスコミはよく親日外国人の意見を報道や掲載し、日本のよさや素晴らしさを日本国内にいる日本人向けに喧伝することをよくやる。日本人のイメージを悪くする反日意見は取り上げてもとても稀であることは知っている。産経新聞のこの記事はその代表。ジャーナリズムを標榜する一流新聞ではなくて、購読者数を増やすことが目的の商業新聞であることには間違いない。とくに旧日本兵に対して「戦い方が非常に紳士的だった」なんて考えている外国人がどれだけいるか疑わしい。それは*ハワイの奇襲(本当なら騙し打ち)攻撃をひとつとっても、大多数が反対する見解を示すだろうと予想されるからだ。最近観たハリウッド映画『Hacksaw Ridge』(2016)ではアメリカ兵が戦場での日本兵を指して"sneaky"と言っているし、戦闘場面では白旗を振って穴から出てくる日本兵の小グループが、それを見て近寄ってくるアメリカ兵たちに向かって手榴弾を投げつける場面があるが、とても紳士的とは思えないのである。その向かってくる手榴弾を他のアメリカ兵の命を救うために蹴飛ばしたが、その爆発で自分が怪我をしてしまうのが、その映画の主役。それで彼のHacksaw Ridgeでの救助する役が終り、映画も終る。これはハリウッドが生み出した嘘か。この映画は真実に基づくとある。笑。*Takeo Iguchi, a professor of law and international relations at International Christian University in Tokyo, discovered documents that pointed to a vigorous debate inside the government over how, and indeed whether, to notify Washington of Japan's intention to break off negotiations and start a war, including a December 7 entry in the war diary saying, "our deceptive diplomacy is steadily proceeding toward success." Of this, Iguchi said, "The diary shows that the army and navy did not want to give any proper declaration of war, or indeed prior notice even of the termination of negotiations ... and they clearly prevailed. 英語のWikiと違って、日本語のWikiにはかなり日本に都合よく美化した戦争物語が書かれていることに凡人は気付く。真実を語る教育的な世界的運動のWikiのはずだが、すでに日本のWikiは日本の学校教科書化していることにはとても残念である。
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「日本兵は強く、紳士的だった」 寄せ書き日の丸返還の93歳元米兵ストロンボさんの“日本愛”に称賛・感動
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