特別転記：NYT映画「日本再武装」のスクリプト（1-3）

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

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NARRATOR:
For all the constitutional restrictions, Japan has already built its Self-Defense Forces into one of the most powerful militaries in Asia. Japan‘s annual military budget is 40 billion dollars, one of the largest in the world after the United States.

The size of its forces and the sophistication of its weaponry are roughly equivalent to those of Britain. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers have been sent to serve in southern Iraq and Southeast Asia to provide tsunami relief.

TOMOHIKO TANIGUCHI:
“If we look back for the last ten years, and especially since 9-11, the Japanese forces, men and women, in uniform, have been contributing to betterment of the Iraqi people. And people have started to say, ‘Gee, we’re doing not necessarily a bad thing but we’re doing a good thing and our military―our Self-Defense Forces, by the way―can do even more.’”

NARRATOR:
But right-wing politicians want to go far beyond peacekeeping. Japanese political leaders have begun to think the unthinkable. 

The only country to suffer a nuclear attack is now seriously debating whether to require nuclear weapons.

MASAHIDE OTA:
“Some American military specialist, then also scholars mentioned that by 2015 Japan might have nuclear weapons, because by 2015 China will have so many youngsters who can fight in the battlefield, while in Japan we have fewer youngsters.”

YUKI TANAKA:	
“Well, from the viewpoint of the right-wingers, they’ll say, ‘Because we were victimized by nuclear weapons, therefore, we should possess nuclear weapons.’ If North Korea started to launch nuclear missiles against us, that will, you know, invite a massive attack on North Korea from all over the world. So, I don’t think that possessing the nuclear arms [will] solve the problems in relation to North Korea or China.”

(END of Chapter 1)

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Last Updated 2007.07.26