転換期 他

「金正日の肖像を外さないと無償化認めない」　橋下知事
2010.3.12

この日、橋下知事が訪れたのは、大阪朝鮮高級学校（東大阪市）と生野朝鮮初級学校（大阪市生野区）。橋下知事は、朝鮮学校の高校にあたる高級学校への補助金については、教室から金総書記の肖像画を外す▽使用する教科書の記述で「敬愛なる金総書記」などと個人崇拝の表記をしないことや竹島や日本海の呼称について、日本側の主張も併記するなどの配慮をする▽財務状態を公開するーなどを予算執行の条件として提示した。そのうえで、学校と朝鮮総連との関係を絶つ必要があると強調した。

「総連と断絶を」朝鮮学校視察の橋下知事、府補助に条件

2010年3月12日

橋下知事は視察後、報道陣に対し、「民族に誇りをもって一生懸命やっているのはわかった。いい方向で解決したい」と述べた。

　まあまあ橋本流大人の対応といったところか？


Koreans in Japan would become permanent foreigners
Tei Taikin / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun (Feb. 24, 2010)

Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa has said he plans to have a bill submitted to the Diet this year that would grant non-Japanese permanent residents the right to vote in local elections. Here, I would like to present two reasons why I oppose this idea.

The bill is generally understood as a positive response by Japan's political world to ethnic Korean residents' demands for local suffrage.

But this is a misunderstanding.

Many ethnic Korean residents in Japan intend to continue living in this nation for many years to come, if not permanently, and to obtain Japanese nationality when the opportunity arises.

The number of ethnic Koreans registered as special permanent residents in Japan had long been said to be around 600,000. However, their number has actually dropped to 400,000 now as nearly 10,000 each year obtain Japanese nationality. And most of them who are married to Japanese do not have their children take South Korean nationality or be registered as "Korean" residents in Japan.

These Koreans, most of whom were born in Japan, lack both a sense of belonging to their home country and an awareness that they are foreigners despite the fact that they have South Korean nationality or are registered as Korean residents.

If such a group of people is granted the right to vote in local elections, their identity will remain ambiguous permanently.

Indeed, they are Koreans and foreigners only on paper, thereby making it difficult to describe their identity.

So the bill Ozawa plans is something that would try to preserve such Korean residents as permanent foreigners.

Secondly, we should oppose the bill precisely because it could pave the way for foreign governments to intervene in Japan's domestic politics. This is not a matter that concerns only the Korean residents.

According to statistics as of the end of 2008, there were 490,000 general permanent residents in Japan and 420,000 special permanent residents who came to Japan before or during World War II from the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule and their offspring. Many of the general permanent residents are from China, Brazil and the Philippines. The number of Chinese, in particular, is expected to increase further.

Some people argue that the bill would not threaten Japan's sovereignty, which rests with its people, because the bill as it stands would only grant local suffrage to them.

But I don't have to go at length to explain that the border between national politics and local politics is unclear. It is possible that foreign residents' voting behavior would cause a conflict of interest with Japan's diplomatic and security policies over such issues related to the Self-Defense Forces, U.S. bases in Japan, nuclear power plants and territorial disputes over the Takeshima islets and Senkaku Islands, all of which are closely linked to national policies.

Would the Chinese government keep at arm's length from Chinese expatriates in Japan? Just as the South and North Korean governments have done, the Chinese government could try to use Chinese permanent residents as a political tool to fulfill its objectives. Emigrating to another country used to mean bidding farewell to one's mother country. But now it is globally observed that those emigrating to a country maintain not only a cultural, but also a political connection with their country of origin.

People who think the Japanese archipelago is not only for Japanese can be found not only in Japan, but also outside the country.

It is interesting to note that the Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan) systematically lobbied people in Japan's political circles before the 2009 House of Representatives election. It invited candidates of major political parties to exchange opinions on the issue of local suffrage for permanent foreign residents and urged them to support the extension of such a franchise. I've always predicted that Mindan would eventually demand that permanent residents have the right to vote in national elections. Its behavior before that election can be taken as a preliminary move for that purpose.

Meanwhile, the public offices election law in South Korea has been revised to allow its expatriates to vote in national elections from 2012. The law enables South Korean permanent residents in Japan to exercise their right to vote in South Korea's presidential and general elections.

Such a development would make it difficult for them to avoid the charge that they would thus be doubly privileged.

鄭大均氏による外国人地方参政権付与に関する英語論文である。これについては賛否両論あってなかなか難しい問題である、ことは何度も書いた。氏は外国政府による影響力を重視している。もう一つ、投票権を与えることによって、在日韓国朝鮮人が永遠の外国人になってしまうことを懸念している。

U.S. isolationism at a 40-year high　via mozu

アメリカ。世論で孤立主義の傾向がたかまっている、と。

他方

フォークランド紛争と米英の亀裂（地政学を英国で学ぶ）

イギリスだって使い捨てにされるかも知れないわけですね。これが国際政治の現実です。

ということだ。

さて、揺れる世界。どうするニッポン。

以前同じ奥山氏が戦略の階層という投稿をされていた。

宇宙観（死生観、哲学・宗教観、魂、アイデンティティー）
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世界観（人生観、歴史観、地理感覚、心、ヴィジョン）
↓
政策（生き方、政治方針、意志、ポリシー）
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大戦略（人間関係、兵站・資源配分、身体、グランドストラテジー）
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軍事戦略（仕事の種類、戦争の勝ち方、ミリタリーストラテジー）

という階層である。
で、今の日本の場合、日本は世界のなかでどうありたいのか、がぼやけすぎている。

　例えば、在日米軍の要否、そのうま味はなんなのか？
以前引用したが、仮に、

ハワイの陸軍師団が日本防衛用である

であり、また、これまた
以前引用した産経の記事によれば、

万が一、米軍が日本から兵力をほとんど引くような事態では、「アジアの他の国が代わりに米国を受け入れてでも、その衝撃を最小限に抑えようとするだろう」と、シンガポール経営大学のウェルシュ准教授（政治学）は見る

ということなら、他の国が米軍を受け入れて、あえて在日米軍がなくてもアジアは安定、日米同盟は健在、ということで、素人目には在日米軍の日本にとってのうま味がわからない。

　仮にそうなったとして、それで、失うものはなにか？
　トヨタだけでなく、ホンダもいびられるのか？あるいは、マグロだけでなくさんまも禁漁になるのか？
　あるいは、それで得るものはなにか？

　日本でも孤立主義の傾向が高まっている、とまではいえないだろうが、しかし、　日本はどうした国家でありたいのか？また、どのような弱みや制限があるのか？だから、どのような政策や意思をもつべきなのか、その観点から、在日米軍の要否、あるいは、日米同盟の要否、必要としてそのあり方まで、含めて忌憚なく、根本的な大きな議論をしていく大きな転換期にあるのかもしれない。


全然関係ないがさっきの投稿の写真、あの英字新聞記者に似てなくてもない。(^_-)　錯覚か？