Japanese nationalism: Decoy for American imperialism?
Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries.
Get short URL Published time: May 25, 2015 14:14
Ｒｕｓｓｉａｎ Today だからどうでもいいっっていえばそれまでだが。
Japan is ready to change its post-war pacifist constitution; it is rapidly arming itself to the teeth, building battleships and purchasing fighter jets. Recruitment posters are everywhere.
軍事力では、米中露英国フランスは言うに及ばず、韓国やドイツのほうが
日本より上なんだよな。
Meanwhile, Japan is standing - obediently and loyally - by its occupier and closest ally, the United States.
従米ーーこれはたしか。
The islands constitute an issue that has never been resolved. Japanese propaganda is constantly repeating the claim that the Soviet Union grabbed the Kurils at the end of WWII. For decades Japan has been demanding their return.
これは日本側のプロパガンダではなくロシア側のプロパガンダ
ただ面白いのは、
But even in Wakkanai, not everyone is convinced that Russia should be compromising on the issue. A captain of a small Japanese fishing vessel explains:
“We have an extreme-right-wing prime minister here in Japan. He is very close to the United States, a country that is antagonizing, and in fact most likely wants to destroy, both Russia and China. If the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin go back to Japan, they would be immediately converted into another Okinawa; full of US Air Force and naval bases, very near the Russian mainland.”
日本人船長の話として、北方領土が沖縄のようになって、米軍基地置かれて、ソ連との緊張が高まる、と。
作り話としても、たぶん、ロシア側の懸念を表明しているんでしょうね。
The military alliance with America is also accompanied by what critics would say a subservient attitude towards Washington in general. Japan rarely balks against what Washington wishes on foreign policy.
subservient attitudeっていうんですね、米国に対する隷属的態度 のことは。
Geoffrey Gunn, a leading Australian historian and Professor emeritus at Nagasaki University, is concerned about Japan’s increasingly aggressive role in the region:
“All changed when the Abe government nationalized the Senkaku/Diaoyu [Islands]. The status quo changed because now Japan declares that there is actually no dispute over these so-called disputed islands. Therefore the Tokyo government has angered China. China is indignant with this change of the status quo.”
Geoffrey Gunn とかいう、長崎大学の教授はもうアウトだなあ。
日本国政府による購入と国有化
国有化したのは野田内閣
The reason for this is largely explained by Japan’s efforts at indoctrinating Asian peoples with a pro-Western worldview. For decades, Japanese universities had been offering ‘scholarships’ to students from poor Southeast Asian nations. They would indoctrinate these students with pro-Western dogmas, breaking the revolutionary spirit, while converting young people to behave as servants of the Empire; essentially doing to other Asians what was done to the Japanese.
こういう記事載せるからＲＴは信用されなくなってくる。
David McNeill, Irish professor at the prestigious Sofia University in Tokyo, also works for the NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster. He is increasingly critical of the new, militarized and indoctrinated Japan:
They are rewriting text books; they skip through WWII, dedicating to it only eight pages... Nationalism is rising. Naoki Hyakuta, a comedy writer, published a novel about Kamikaze fighters, entitled ‘Forever Zero’… The novel sold 5 million copies! You know that nothing sells 5 million copies in Japan!
マックニール氏。日本語の読み書きができないでも、記者であり続けるには・・・・"Nationalism is rising" 言い続ければいいんだもんあああ、楽な商売だよな。
I am also told that the Japanese public is given a one-sided interpretation of current affairs. When it comes to topics like Russia, Syria and China, Japanese people are made to consume Western propaganda exclusively.
日本語のメディア読んでないからいえる。英語圏のプーチンは悪魔 記事の嵐のようなことは、たぶん、ほぼ皆無だよ、日本では。
Even in the places like Abu Dhabi and Beirut, television channels like RT are available in every major hotel. Not in Japan. In all big international chains, it is mainly a diet of local channels, plus CNN, BBC and Fox.
いや、ＲＴの記事だすと、信用してもらえないんだもん。
With an extremely close relationship with the US, and an antagonist approach towards Russia, China and others, Prime Minister Abe appears to be highhandedly bringing the country into military conflict with its neighbors, namely Korea and China, while the population is completely ignorant of this and stuck with ever shrinking social services.
安倍ちゃんは、西側ではめずらしく、親露なんだがなああ。
・・・・・別にＮＹＴがいいとは全然思わないけど、ＲＴもこれじゃああ、引用すると、「ＲＴなんて引用してどうするの？」と言われて終わりになってしまうよ。
