６、7年前に…大阪の心臓部に届けた意見広告…芥川は、大阪を変えたとの自負を持っている文章です…の中に書いた、チャン・ツィーについての文章は、溝口健二の「雨月物語」を評するのに一番相応しいと思って…古いパソコンで探していたら…ハワイに住む一生の親友であるフランス人に英訳したものしかなく、予想外の文書を発見して読んでみたら、英語として、大丈夫じゃないかと思い、アップする事にしました…英語の達人の方が読まれて、ここはおかしいと思われましたら、どうぞ、訂正のメッセージを下さい。

 

エール大学の学長だったＭｒ，レビンがニューズ・ウィークに「中国は日本の轍を踏まない」と題して寄稿した巻頭の記事に対して…言わば悔しくて…拙い英語も省みず、メールした文章です。芥川の読者の過半の人は、簡単に読めると思いますので読んでみてください。

 

I was born to be a gifted man in Japan, to write the great book that will be the best of thinking after The World War II. I have questions against your contributed article to The News Week named‘ Why China Is Not a New Japan’. You wrote that Japan could not survive the IT revolution in 90^th, and America dominated over Japan overwhelmingly by the software of a higher order and the high-tech communication, and Japan was behind in technological innovation so that sled into the fifteen years’ depression,　I think this is an accepted theory in the world even in Japan.

 

Before I show you that theory is not true, I introduce myself with ten several sentences. 

I belonged to the super elite course in Japan, but God never made me insider.

If I was going to be an insider, I do not have the time to write the book.

My teacher said to me that I have to shoulder the Kyoto University.

My classmates expected me to be a great writer some day.

At first the God gave me unfortunate home that was a result of the emperor-banzai fascism.

While I was young I was a man of tender sensibilities so that I spent unhappy infancy and youth.

As Friedrch Engels said that he learned his philosophy not in school but through his home, I learned the truth of my country through my home.  

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I hit three punches to my father’s face that was an incident but was necessity.

He offered no resistance to this incident, then he said to me; this is my house so you leave here.

He was not qualified as a father and the head of a family but I thought his wards were right.

So I left my home and I was going to the life of outsider far from the promised　life of insider as elite. 

Then unexpectedly I have been engaged in realty for thirty years in Osaka as one of the biggest realty brokerage firm. So I know the true cause of the depression in Japan for fifteen years.

 

Well,

Two misleads caused the depression, one was the government’s mislead in 1990/4/1 at the beginning of this year the price of property had began to fall, that is to say, the bubble-time was over already, but our government stopped the money -flow for the realty companies and the construction companies by notifying to all the banks so that every companies even the big company fell down soon.

 

Another was Japanese Journalism’s; I will define this journalism as peasants, mislead in 1991 or 1992 at that time we have to invest ten trillion yen over for solving the housing-roan companies’ matter, of course the Prime Minister Miyazawa knew it well, but they began to sing in big chorus to stop to waste our hard-earned tax money for the banks and realty companies so that only eight thousand billion yen was invested in this matter.

 

Through these fifteen years our government had to invest our tax one trillion yen over in even a bank or a big company, but they said nothing until today about this, just like in sixty years ago though they mislead Japanese people to the cruel war as the emperor-banzai fascism, they has never apologized officially.  I will disclose this perfectly in my book.

 

They can’t recognize their mistakes but there’s no use saying to them because even you fell in the wrong point of view. I know the true causes so that I have to tell you.

 

You wrote that Japan could not survive the IT revolution in 90^th,

This is not true, the truth is below. In 1984 the professor Mr. Ken Sakamura graduated the Keiou University invented ＴＲＯＮ(The Real time Operating-system Nucleus). And The Ministry of Education in Japan decided to use TRON in the personal computers for the use of elementary and junior high school.

 

Mr. Levin, it was your government that stood above the Japanese brand-new way.

Your government pressed to the Japanese government very strongly to stop using of TRON as the standard of the personal computer for those schools. In those days your country was swamped with VTR or automobiles by Japan so that your country had the big trade deficit. Your government suggested to place import restrictions or so. Then the Japanese companies had to withdraw from the TRON PC products one by one. Before long, ‘windows’ conquered the world market.

Japanese manufacturing company without the heart software of the personal computer faced to decline the profits year by year. They had been felt the weakness without essential soft in these fifteen years keenly.

 

Mr. Levin, these are the true causes of these fifteen years’ depression.

I have deep affection and respect to USA as the country of perfect freedom without kings or emperors so that all people are the heroes and the kings.

But this behavior of your nation made me disappointed to your country’s glory.

I understand USA that has both monies means good money and bad money.

Good money is the perfect democracy, bad money is the capitalism that is going too much so that causes the extremely unbalance between the rich and the poor. I think this unbalance is more than ‘American Dream’.

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