特別転記：NYT映画「日本再武装」のスクリプト（1-2）

Chapter 1 Rethinking Self-Defense (Part 2 of 3)

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NARRATOR:
It’s a message that is increasingly popular in Japan. The nation rebuilt itself from the ashes of the war into the world’s second largest economy. Having achieved prosperity, 
Japan is a country in search of itself. It wants to play a larger role in world affairs, perhaps as a military power, and maintain its economic status as nations like China and India come of age.

YUKI TANAKA:
“China will become the most powerful nation in Asia soon. And that will, of course, damage the pride of the Japanese political leaders―especially right-wing leaders―and that [will] stimulate their desire to possess more powerful military forces.”

NARRATOR:
Leading the charge to reform the Constitution is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose government has set in motion the process of abolishing Article 9.

TOMOHIKO TANIGUCHI: 
“The reason why the generation of Shinzo Abe’s is interested in revising the Constitution is because Japan has come of age, Japan can make a difference in a very much good fashion in managing the world together with the United States.”

SHINTARO ISHIHARA:
“Japan should absolutely possess a military, and to a degree it already does. But it should be a full-fledged military. We certainly have the economical and technological capacity to do so. We are not just a squadron of America.

NARRATOR:
In a recent public opinion poll, only one third of Japanese respondents were in favor of changing Article 9. Critics of efforts to reform the Constitution say it a ploy by right-wing politicians to distract the country from the domestic problem including high unemployment and fear of rising crime.

KOICHI KATO:
“The unity within a castle is very easily obtained if enemy attacks you. So, making enemy is one thing [to] get your people united.”

MASAHIDE OTA: former Governor of Okinawa, MP, House of Councillors of Japan
“Once Constitution is changed, I’m afraid so many terrible things might happen. They need more soldiers, you know, so conscription law will be passed, you know, as pre-war days. So, this is what I’m worried about very much, you know.”

NARRATOR:
Kiichi Matsuura, a former kamikaze pilot from the Word War II, says the politicians who want to reform the Constitution are just like Japan‘s military leaders who sent him and so many of his compatriots to their deaths.

KIICHI MATSUURA:
“To politicians who advocate patriotism, reforming Article 9, I say, ‘Are you ready to commit suicide and sacrifice yourself for your country?’”

NARRATOR:
In 1945, Matsuura was headed to Okinawa on his first and only suicide mission, where he had to return to base because of bad weather. But hundreds of other Japanese Kamikaze pilots perished.

KIICHI MATSUURA:
“Of course, my colleagues died. And I feel that I have responsibility for the future. Shortly after the war, all I could do was to live day by day. When I was 70, I realized that my job was to pay respect to those in the war who were victims and how to make their deaths have meaning, and not to be wasted.”

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