特別転記：NYT映画「日本再武装」のスクリプト（2-2）

Chapter 2 Historical Amnesia (Part 2 of 2)

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NARRATOR:
One reason so many Japanese know so little about the war, the critics say, is that government-approved textbooks increasingly whitewashed Japan’s past. Textbooks often play down or ignore atrocities like the ‘Rape of Nanking’ in China and the system of ‘sex slaves’ set up by the Japanese military.

YUKI TANAKA: 
“Because they are not taught about the history, they have no opportunities for further serious study of war and peace. And this is the dangerous thing. If you don’t know anything about it and the politicians say, <<Here you are, this is the idea we have to go>> and they’ll buy it.”

TOMOHIKO TANIGUCHI: Deputy Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“There’s a group of conservative politicians within the LDP (the Liberal Democratic Party) who say that some parts of the textbook descriptions have to be changed. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not a mere parliamentarian. He has no position whatsoever about the way in which textbooks have to be described or authored.”

NARRATOR:
Some textbooks even claim that Japan did not invade Asian countries, but rather, liberated them from Western powers.

MASAHIDE OTA: former Okinawa governor, MP, House of Councillors of Japan
“Youngsters who do not even know there was a war between the United States and Japan, they can be easily mind-controlled, you know. And I’m afraid that they would commit the same mistakes we did, you know. We elderly people did in the past.”

(END of Chapter 2)

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Last Updated 2007.07.26