特別転記：NYT映画「日本再武装」のスクリプト（1-1）

Chapter 1 Rethinking Self-Defense (Part 1 of 3)

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TOMOHIKO TANIGUCHI: Deputy Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“North Korea is openly saying that (it) is developing nuclear weapons, and some of the test cases have proven that their missiles are actually targeted at Japanese Archipelago… And another one, which is shaking the situation, is the rapid buildup of military in China.”

KOICHI KATO: MP, House of Representative of Japan
“Politically, or internationally, and militarily, China is getting bigger and bigger. So we want to be independent against China.”

NARRATOR:
Since its defeat in World War II, Japan has been a pacifist country. It has renounced armed aggression and limited its military to a defensive role. Not one Japanese soldier has killed or been killed in conflict since the war ended more than sixty years ago.
But now that is changing.

With the end of the Cold War and the growing threat of new conflicts between China and North Korea, Japan is shedding its pacifism and rearming itself.

Despite agreeing to shut down its plutonium bomb making program, North Korea remains a threat, because it is believed to have already built a small trove of nuclear weapons.

SHINTARO ISHIHARA: Governor of Tokyo
“Japan will make up its own mind in defending ourselves, and our own efforts to defend ourselves may lead us to acquiring nuclear weapons, which so many people fear.”

NARRATOR:
The shift is part of a larger conservative movement to distance Japan from its negative war legacy. Right-wing politicians are glorifying Japan‘s militarist past and revising the historical record to downplay atrocities committed by the Imperial army.

The goal is to instill a pride of country among Japanese and claim a larger role for Japan in the world.

It is a trend that deeply troubles neighboring Asian countries that suffered atrocities under Japanese military occupation and worry that Japan could revert back to its fiercely colonial past.

YUKI TANAKA: Professor, Hiroshima City University
“If the politician leads towards a wrong direction, this will create enormous nationalism. And if it’s combined with militarism, we don’t know where we’re going. We may start in attacking China.”

NARRATOR:
Masaya Shimamoto is a member of one of Japan‘s largest right-wing organizations. Every week, his group and others like them take to the streets of Tokyo to preach the gospel of nationalism.”

(Mr. Shimamoto speaks in Japanese)

MASAYA SHIMAMOTO, Right wing activist:
“Japan has one of the most ridiculous constitutions in the world. It banns us from having any war capability on land, sea, or air, and renounces the right of aggression.”

NARRATOR:
At the top of the right-wing agenda is reforming Article 9 of the Constitution that was imposed by American Forces at the end of the World War II to prevent Japan from repeating its wartime atrocities. Under Article 9, Japan is limited to Self-Defense Forces that technically cannot operate outside its borders.

MASAYA SHIMAMOTO:
“We should abolish Article 9 of the Constitution and make our Self-Defense Forces into a true Japanese military to protect people’s life, freedom, and property.”

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