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三澤 廣氏の活動報告
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原爆と鯨(H30-7-7) |
今回は英文(後半)でも書いてみました。最初に日本語で書いてから、英語にしましたので、付け加えることが多くなり、英語と日本語が完全には対応していません。
昭和十二年に、南京で、日本軍が三十万人を虐殺をした、と進歩的な人々は言います。 WHALE MEAT AND ATOMIC BOMB Misawa Hiroshi Progressive people, leftists, communists, communists disguised, “liberals” as they have recently come to call themselves, anti-Japan activists or whatever they are, assert that the Imperial Japanese Army murdered three hundred thousand people in Nanking, China, in 1937. This faked news is now accepted as true all over the world. Japanese people are thought to be like so many devils. Although I dare not say there never happened such an incident, yet the above-mentioned number of the dead is out of the question. What makes me most offended is the fact that
many Americans speak ill of Japan concerning this so-called “Rape of Nanking.” In August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States bombers
dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, slaughtering three hundred thousand people
in all. The existence of this fact, far
from the phantom Nanking Incident, leaves no room for doubt. Americans say, “It couldn’t be helped. There was Pearl Harbor first and Hiroshima
and Nagasaki afterwards. It is Japan
that is to blame.” If so, they must not
forget that many Japanese soldiers had been killed first by those Chinese
soldiers who, in plain clothes, pretended to be civilians. Why don’t they say, “It is China that is to
blame.” (To make it double sure, our
ancestors didn’t kill more than ten thousand Chinese in this case. And the Imperial Army did harm to few, if
any, noncombatants.) In the Pearl Harbor attack, around three
thousand Americans were killed, less than the total amount of the victims in
the September 11 (2001) attacks. And yet
Americans took revenge on Japan by killing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki one
hundred times as many, almost all of them civilians. Of course, it is not strange that Americans,
the perpetrators, make various attempts to explain away the crime they
committed. What is confusing is that
Japanese people hesitate to accuse the United States of this cruelty. The conservative camp doesn’t want to talk
against the US because the country has been Japan’s ally since the end of the
Second World War. It is easy to
understand their silence. On the other hand, why doesn’t the
progressive(left-wing) faction refer to the responsibility of the United States
for this matter? They have always been railing
at the country for interfering with Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and other parts of the
world, crying all evils began with Americans’ intrigue to conquer the
world. For all that, they hold their
tongue as far as Hiroshima and Nagasaki are concerned. Progressive people are of the opinion that Japan
must shoulder the responsibility of whatever came about during the war. They believe, “Japan worst, America worse,
Soviet Russia and Red China good.” (I
must explain the circumstances to those foreigners who don’t know what is going
on in Japan: Japanese progressives hate their mother country indeed, at least partly
because of the existence of the emperor system, I guess!) That’s the reason they won’t criticize
America. If they did, it would add up to
defending Japan, whose honor they are making every effort to impair. As
a result, neither rightists nor leftists point out this inhumanity, allowing
America to make believe to be the policeman of the world. If your way of thinking is to be logical, you must
reach the conclusion that the atomic bombardments were the cruelest acts in the
history of the human race. Talking of
those who happened to be in the neighborhood of the blast center (explosion
point), hardly had they seen the fireball for an instant when they were being melted
in a blast furnace. I wonder how come Japanese
people don’t call it atrocity. On the other hand, Americans also find fault
with Japanese with regards to another problem: that we eat whale meat. Nevertheless, they themselves eat beef. Thrusting a blood-dripping piece of beefsteak
with a fork, they say dead to shame, “What a cold-blooded people the Japanese
are! They kill whales and eat their
meat.” What
a hypocrisy it is! And what a
resemblance there is between the beef vs whale-meat case and the Nanking vs
Hiroshima-Nagasaki case!
The excuse they give is that whales are “pretty” and “intelligent.” They show us the pictures of a baby whale,
saying, “How dare you kill and eat such a lovely creature?” Do Americans mean baby cows are not
pretty? I am under the impression that a
baby cow is prettier than a baby whale. As for mental capacity, I agree to a part of
their argument. It is true that the more
intelligent an animal, the bigger the terror in its heart. You can say it is crueler to kill intelligent
animals. However I once read in a
science magazine a study of some American biologist to the effect that cows are
more intelligent than whales. Are there
enough grounds for the belief or allegation of anti-whaling activists, let
alone that of the outrageous “Sea Shepherds”?
Japanese progressive people do nothing but curry favor with China while
using abusive language against the United States. In fact, it’s false obedience, a Judas kiss. They praise China up out of terror for the
dictatorial, gangster country. Japanese
progressive people are in secret love with white people especially in terms of
culture and civilization. Progressive people used to insist that we do
away with Chinese characters and make general use of the European or American
characters (ABCDE), romanizing the Japanese language. They seem to have backed down on their
foolish proposal, though. I would like to
turn informer and warn the Chinese government to see through their inmost
thoughts. They put Europe and America
above China, despising the latter’s history and culture, including Chinese
characters. There is every reason for their restlessness
when they hear white people say, “It is cruel to eat whale meat.” The words come to them as an oracle from the
heaven. Now you must have understood the hidden
explanation why progressive people easily comply with what white people say and
try to refrain from eating whale meat.
Inferior complex makes them do so.
I remember reading an editorial article of an influential newspaper
which said, “We need not persist in eating whale meat. This is not an important problem compared
with international friendship. We should
try to be loved by other peoples by quitting a trifle custom.” Can you help laughing? Can you help getting angry? There is another issue I want to come up with. We can take in as much protein from a whale
as from ten thousand fish or many hundreds of calf. In order to get the same amount of protein, in
the case where we must take one hundred lives of calf, we have only to take a single
life if we choose to eat whale meat. However hard I may think, there is nothing
for it but to ask a question: why is it more humanistic to eat beef than it is
to eat whale meat? (July 7,
2018)
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