2024/03/20

Passages whose meaning is garbled and cannot be accurately reconstructed are identified as such.
Every person in this country is involved in war in some way.
The twentieth century was a century of war.
For example, quite unlike the so-called cultural figures who contributed to yesterday’s Nikkei newspaper column……,
Every person in this country is involved in war in some way.
There were countless poets who volunteered to go to the battlefield and lost their lives.
That is only natural.
[The English sentence explaining the reason contains an unnatural expression concerning the relationship between “a true poet” and “a person who is not a patriot,” so the original Japanese wording cannot be determined.]
However, the so-called intellectuals, cultural figures, and lawyers represented by yesterday’s writer and NHK staff, who say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula, are different.
The roots of the patriotism they should naturally possess as Japanese citizens are distorted and rotten.
A wrongful war would be something like the Nazis’ massacre of the Jews……,
Massacres targeting people who repeatedly came from China and the Korean Peninsula……,
Or a massacre of the United States by Indigenous peoples.
[The preceding two examples contain unnatural expressions in the English translation, and the original Japanese wording cannot be determined, including the relationship between perpetrators and victims.]
[The following sentence discusses Soviet spies, the Asahi Shimbun, and Japan’s relationship to the Second Sino-Japanese War, but the English has the structure “According to Soviet spies and the Asahi Shimbun, Japan is bogging down the Second Sino-Japanese War,” so the original causal relationship cannot be determined.]
The Soviet spies who had coaxed the Roosevelt administration used this issue as their theme and rapidly created pro-China, anti-Japan public opinion in the United States.
If they succeed in infiltrating agents amounting to five percent of an organization’s membership, they take control of the organization targeted by their operations.
[The following sentence about propaganda operations, together with its parenthetical passage, is garbled in the English translation, and its meaning cannot be determined.]
That, too, is only natural.
At the time, the Soviet Union also sent spies into countries such as Canada, where anti-Japanese public opinion had formed.
The well-known Herbert Norman was one of them.
When Lenin succeeded in the Russian Revolution, intellectuals around the world were profoundly shocked.
Therein lay the weakness of intellectuals excessively inclined toward ideas or information.
That was also one of the factors that caused Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s suicide.
For example, Deutscher wrote that the intellectuals of that time were shocked by the Russian Revolution.
[The following sentence, concerning an ideal revolution by workers and the Russian Revolution’s appeal to leading scholars in various countries, contains unnatural English wording and cannot be accurately reconstructed.]
[The next sentence also has the structure “It is not impossible because it still does not know what communism is like,” so its precise meaning cannot be determined.]
However,
Postwar Japanese intellectuals repeated the mistakes of the thinkers of that era.
[The sentence concerning yesterday’s “Daiki Shoki” column has the English wording “Big opportunities, small opportunities was disclosed distinctly,” so what was revealed cannot be accurately reconstructed.]
Who spread the idea that Japan had fought a wrongful war?
Whose perceptions were shaped through whose indoctrination?
Most of the postwar Japanese intellectuals who had excelled academically could not understand a truth that even kindergarten children could understand.
They cannot even call themselves intellectuals.
Awarding the Nobel Prize to Kenzaburo Oe was the height of folly.
Who spread the idea that Japan had fought a wrongful war?
The United States.
Who was responsible for the indoctrination?
The United States.
For what purpose?
To divert the world’s attention from, and conceal, the greatest massacre committed by human beings in the history of warfare: the indiscriminate incendiary bombing of 127 cities throughout Japan.
Furthermore, Japan was made into the villain to conceal the greatest and worst crime in human history—the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and divert the world’s attention from it.
However, Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, has thoroughly examined this issue and shown us that, contrary to the propaganda, Japanese soldiers were actually gentlemanly on the battlefield.
He has revealed that they possessed the aesthetic sensibility and restraint that the Japanese had cultivated over 2,600 years.
In this chapter, I tell the world the truth for the first time.
Why did the United States not only indiscriminately attack 127 cities throughout Japan with incendiary bombs but also attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Racism in the world and within the United States government at the time was a factor in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The greatest reason was that the Japanese people were so strong that the Japanese military was the strongest in history.
Even after their supplies were cut off, most of them fought to the death on distant battlefields, risking their lives to protect their faraway country—the country where their families, wives, and children lived.
No other country in history had such a people.
I believe Bushido was one factor in their attitude.
The Japanese military was far too strong.
The military of the United States, then the strongest in the world, must have felt that in its bones.
[The relationship of the expression corresponding to “overwhelming physical strength” to the rest of this sentence is unclear, so the original Japanese wording cannot be determined.]
In every battle the United States fought, the Japanese were far tougher and more formidable than the Americans could have imagined.
The Japanese military was as strong as demigods.
The Japanese, whose love for their homeland, families, and hometowns was the strongest in human history, were the bravest people in the world when it came to war.
In other words, the Japanese people’s love for their homeland, families, and hometowns was so strong that no other people could match it.
That was the kind of people the Japanese were.
In a sense, that was only natural.
In the Second World War, Japan was forced onto the losing side through the conspiracy of Soviet spies, media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun, and the Roosevelt administration, which had become entangled in the activities of Soviet spies.
[The following sentence has the wording “No other country has ever been occupied or invaded by another country,” but its subject is inconsistent with the context, so the original Japanese wording cannot be determined.]
There is no such country anywhere in the world.
Yesterday’s writer, the Asahi Shimbun, and the so-called “cultural figures” are surprisingly lacking in such feelings.
Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami are the foremost examples.
Mr. Oe appears to have strong feelings only for his family, hometown, the Korean Peninsula, China, and similar places.
It is well known that he harbors intense hatred toward the rest of actual Japan—Japan itself.
His name invariably appears among the founders of movements that have displayed hatred toward Japan.
Masayuki Takayama has stated that American newspapers have long contained many fabrications.
[The following passage about the New York Times contains the unnatural expression “made a forge,” so it cannot be determined whether the intended meaning was “fabricated reports” or “became a breeding ground for fabrication.”]
Was this in cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang?
[The connections between the English sentences around this passage are garbled, so the original Japanese wording cannot be determined.]
[The sentence structure is also garbled in the following passage concerning the relationship between the Nanjing Massacre and the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship.]
The Asahi Shimbun wrote articles based on Chinese materials.
Through its “Travels in China” feature series, which spread throughout the world, it cooperates with this Chinese propaganda.
The operative Katsuichi Honda was not punished as a traitor to his country for doing so.
His work became an enormous bestseller, and he earned vast sums of money, assumed the air of a great journalist, and lives in affluence.
[The passage concerning his relationship with his followers has the English wording “followed the entourage,” so the original Japanese wording cannot be determined.]
Honda’s example overlaps with that of Takashi Uemura, who continued publishing fabricated reports about the comfort women.
Takashi Uemura unreasonably lashed out at Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, a treasure of Japan.
[The same sentence states that more than one hundred lawyers “appeared as surroundings” in a lawsuit at the Sapporo District Court, but the connection between the parts of the sentence is garbled, so the nature of their involvement cannot be accurately reconstructed.]
At the club of correspondents in Japan, it was a shameless Italian who defended the despicable Takashi Uemura and the Asahi Shimbun and disparaged Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, a treasure of Japan.
China and the Korean Peninsula exploit the stance adopted by the United States after the war.
[The ending of this sentence literally translates as “continue to multiply,” but its precise meaning in context cannot be determined.]
This draft continues.