雑談日記（徒然なるままに、。）

 　以下文中「$3,000bn」と言うのは言わずと知れた「Japanese savings」つまり庶民の汗の結晶、郵貯の３５０兆円である（現在のレート、110.93円／＄だと約332.8兆円）。
※bnと言うのは「billion」の略。
■billion  {名・形} → 10億（の）、莫大な、無数の◆G(giga)と同じ。＝1,000,000,000◆独・英で1兆を指す時もある。◆【略】b ; b. ; bn. ; bln ; Bln ; BLN（英辞郎より）

　それを、「will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on」つまり、「もう少し待つことなるよ、手に入れるにはネ、」と言っているのである。
　ずうずうしいと言うか、正直にも。（汗）（＾＾；

　小泉の郵政民有化は、まさにそれに向かってまっしぐらと言う訳である。そして、それを日本のマスゴミはまともに報道しようともしない。広告会社を通してキンタマでも握られてでもいるかのごとく、、。

※国際金融資本と言えば米国、米国と言えば国際金融資本。小泉の対米従属を見るとき、頭に入れておいて損はない。

◆A contemporary dilemma haunted by history　（Financial Times）
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ae844de4-0834-11da-97a6-00000e2511c8.html

By Ronald Dore
Published: August 8 2005 20:22 | Last updated: August 8 2005 20:22

Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, has lost the vote on his grand scheme to privatise the country’s post office with its vast savings pool and will go to the polls. For now, the village-pump communitarian face of Japanese conservatism has won out over anti-bureaucratic, privatising radicalism. The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn of Japanese savings.

But the snap election next month is likely to focus as much on the dire state of Japan’s relations with China and Korea as on privatisation. Here at issue is the other face of Japanese conservatism: the reluctance to feel guilty about the war. The key symbol of that reluctance has been Mr Koizumi’s visits to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japan’s war dead. There is speculation he might open his election campaign with such a visit on the 60th anniversary of the war’s end next Monday. Opinion polls show a bare majority think it “wiser” not to go. Mr Koizumi may think bravado and talking tough to the Chinese will win more votes than wisdom.

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←このエントリーを投稿してから5年後の2010年1月27日、参院予算委員会で質疑する国民新森田高議員。「これは郵政解散翌日の某海外の新聞のトップ紙面であります」 と言及しているFinancial Times。一見新聞そのままの様に見えますが、一面トップ部分と漫画部分と上記記事中赤字の部分を貼り付けてコラージュでまとめたもののようです。

←質疑中、森田高議員が持つFinancial Timesの漫画部分。作者はIllustration by Ingram Pinn

※追加：最初の記事（◆A contemporary dilemma〜）の翌日の記事です。

Koizumi's contemporary dilemma is haunted by history（Financial Times）
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4a2fd10-0871-11da-97a6-00000e2511c8.html
By Ronald Dore

Published: August 9 2005 03:00 | Last updated: August 9 2005 03:00

Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's prime minister, has lost the vote on his grand scheme to privatise the country's post office with its vast savings pool and will go to the polls. For now, the village-pump communitarian face of Japanese conservatism has won out over anti-bureaucratic, privatising radicalism. The global finance industry will have to wait a little longer to get its hands on that $3,000bn (£1,700bn) of Japanese savings.

But the snap election next month is likely to focus as much on the dire state of Japan's relations with China and Korea as on privatisation. Here at issue is the other face of Japanese conservatism: the reluctance to feel guilty about the war. The key symbol of that reluctance has been Mr Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo to pay respects to Japan's war dead. There is speculation he might open his election campaign with such a visit on the 60th anniversary of the war's end next Monday. Opinion polls show a bare majority think it "wiser" not to go. Mr Koizumi may think bravado and talking tough to the Chinese will win more votes than wisdom.

Certainly, Yasukuni shrine, centre of the oppressive pre-war state Shinto cult of patriotism, is a strange place to go to pray for peace - which is what Mr Koizumi says he does. It is exclusively dedicated to those who "gave their lives for the Emperor" (not including air-raid victims). An attached museum glories in the patriotic heroism of Japan's tragic failure. Also - a core theme of Chinese complaints - it enshrines those judged by the Tokyo war crimes trials to be war criminals.

In the wake of Mr Koizumi's legislative defeat, the opposition Minshuto now has a real chance of governing. What line might it take? One possibility is to promise serious debate about the justice of those war crimes trials. Every Japanese party leader must take into account a widespread feeling that Japan was not singly to blame for the war. Only one-fifth of that bare majority in opinion polls who thought official visits to the shrine unwise thought also they were "wrong". But this vague unease is currently expressed and exploited only by the fanatic populist right whose blogs and manga cartoons make martyred heroes out of the "victims of victor's justice". The establishment line hitherto has been not that the trials were "just", but that "Japan accepted the justice of the trials in the San Francisco peace treaty: the matter is closed". Nothing could more clearly signal the absence of that key Confucian virtue, sincerity.

One idea might be to ask an international body, possibly one under the United Nations umbrella, to set up a panel - three internationally distinguished historians, say, with one Japanese, one Chinese and one Korean adviser - to reassess the trials. In opening the issue, any "revisionist" should make clear to China and Korea that the debate is not about the scale and nature of individual atrocities for which the "B" and "C" class war criminals were punished - many with death sentences. The standards of military justice applied may well have been wanting; but only the rabid fringe in Japan would deny that atrocities were committed, or seek to justify them.

It is, instead, about the events leading up to the war itself, and the burden of guilt of the so-called "A" class war criminals, including the seven who were hanged, and whose enshrinement in Yasukuni drives Chinese protests.

The first point for any revisionist to make is that the "orthodox" thesis - a blameless Japanese people dragged into war by a fanatical militarist faction whose leaders were properly hanged - is too easy a cop-out. As an excuse, it is morally available only to the relative few who passed the war in prison and the slightly larger number who sat it out in sullen alienation. Any 70-year-old Japanese will remember the general feeling, a month before Pearl Harbor, that war could not honourably be avoided, given US demands. They will remember, too, the national euphoria that prevailed in the initial, victorious six months of the war.

If by any chance Mr Koizumi adopts this line, he might even mentionhis politician grandfather who hounded an "unpatriotic" pacifist out ofhis party in the late 1930s, in theend finally destroying party politics.

The key question, however, is whether the sins of the Japanese nation were so extraordinary as to warrant execution of its leaders, even as a symbolic act. General Tojo and his crowd were certainly racists, but their assertions of Japanese superiority were partly a response to slights from the white, western world, such as the rejection of Japan's proposal for a declaration of racial equality in the preamble of the Versailles treaty. It was a racial war, but the Japanese had no genocidal project equal to the Nazis' systematic slaughter of Jews and Gypsies.

They were racists, yes, but all imperialists were racists. Like earlier generations who fought China and Russia to win Taiwan and Korea, they were trying to build an empire that could claim equality with the European empires. Racial resentment apart, they had similar motives to the European imperialists: the same sheer national self-aggrandisement, the self-righteous belief in a civilising mission and the hypocritical cynicism to use the one to justify the other.

An amusing history game: try to match Japanese leaders with the imposing figures of 19th-century British history. Matsuoka Yosuke had a bit of the flamboyant self-assurance of Palmerston, if not the wit. In the freelance buccaneer class, Sasakawa matches with Cecil Rhodes (both eventually set up British educational foundations). The dour Tojo perhaps most resembled the pious General Gordon, who sacked Beijing only 40 years before Tojo's men sacked Nanjing.

The big difference was that the Japanese came too late. And lost. The winners could declare the imperial age over, cede their colonies and claim they had saved the world for freedom and democracy. Why would mainstream Japanese politicians hesitate to talk in these terms? Probably because it would upset too many powerful Americans. Yohei Kono, speaker of the lower house of Japan's Diet and a former foreign minister, got to the heart of it when he said last weekend: "We need an even-handed approach . . . We need to rethink our habit of doffing our caps to America on the one hand and talking down to the Chinese on the other." Perhaps he had in mind the Chinese charge that putting Japan on the UN Security Council would be giving two votes to the US.

The writer is author of Stock Market Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany vs. the Anglo-Saxons (OUP)

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午後七時四分、衆議院解散。（２００５・９・１１投開票の小泉ワンフレーズ郵政詐欺紛い選挙）

「郵政民営化とは本当は何なのか － 公社分割と株式売却の中身（なるほど、キーワードはホリエモンだ）」
「郵政民営化と金の流れを図に描いて考えてみた。」

「自民党が推すホリエモンについてのナルホド。」
「皆さん読んだ方がいい「海外メディアが伝えた小泉・郵政解散劇の評判」」
「今「時事・評論」が女性にもトレンド。嘘だらけのマスゴミなんで、当然ではある。（笑）」
「ネットＴＶで反対派荒井広幸氏（参院議員）の話しをじっくり聞きました。いや～ぁ、小泉の"郵政民営化"なんてとんでもないナ。」
「広告会社とマスゴミを使った洗脳チョロマカシ作戦ははたして成功するのか。」
「「争点限定誘導・マインドコントロール解散」だ。もし命名するとすれば。」
「確かに最近のマスゴミは小泉ヨイショに偏向していると思う。気持ちが悪いくらいだ。」
「マスゴミが小泉をヨイショしている間に、その時まわりに誰もいなくなった状態だな～ぁ。ブッシュのポチ犬・小泉外交。」
「「（年次改革要望書を）見たこともありません」の竹中の大嘘答弁、小泉は「思い過ごし」とはぐらかし、それを報道しないマスゴミ。」
「ココフラッシュにマスコミ批評カテゴリーがついに登場。」

追加（2009-03-01）
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