Sixty years ago a “Class A” war criminal gave an address to congress in a bid to ensure that his peace-minded countrymen would not force the U.S. military from his homeland. 1,2 Nobusuke Kishi, a member of Hideki Tojo’s cabinet and a signatory to Japan’s declaration of war on America, was the top Japanese official in Japan’s annexed territory of Manchuria during a time of unspeakable crimes against humanity including mass rape, enslavement, murder of children and infants, biological experiments on civilians, including vivisection, and a beheading contest celebrated by his home country’s press.3.4,5,6,7 Arrested by the American occupation in 1945, he was freed three years later to be put back in power by the CIA so the U.S. could have a puppet government in Asia to check the growing fear of communism. Eight years after escaping the hangman’s noose that claimed some of his Class A colleagues, secret U.S. funds helped install him as Prime Minister.8 That was 1957, the same year he addressed U.S. lawmakers in Washington. When Kishi’s U.S.-sanctioned security treaty came to a vote in Japan three years later, he had the opposition forcibly removed from the voting chamber so it would pass. 9 Though the security agreement, which guaranteed large tracks of land for U.S. military bases, become law, it was so unpopular with the Japanese masses that Kishi was run out of office.
六十年前「Ａ級」戦犯（に問われた）者が彼の平和に心を傾ける同胞は合衆国軍が彼の国から追い出すようなことをしないと保証する原質を与える為に議会で演説した。東条英機の閣僚でアメリカへの宣戦布告に署名した岸信介は大量婦女暴行・奴隷化・子供と乳幼児殺害・市民に対する生物兵器実験を含み、彼の母国の報道で祝われた生体解剖や首切り競争を含む言語に絶する人道に対する罪の時代の日本の満州地域併合時の日本のトップの役人であった。1945年アメリカ占領軍に（彼は）捕らえられが、三年後合衆国が共産主義の増大する脅威を止める為アジアに傀儡政府樹立できるよう中央情報局によって権力の座に付けられた。八年後、彼と同じＡ級先般の同僚を奪った絞首刑執行者の輪縄から逃れ、合衆国秘密財源に助けられて彼は首相の座に据えられた。それは1957年だったが、同年彼はワシントンで合衆国議会議員に向けて演説した。三年後岸の合衆国裁可の安全保障条約の投票が日本で行われることになったが、かれはそれが可決されるように反対者を投票する議事堂から力の強制力で排除した。土地の大きな部分を合衆国基地にすることを保証した安全保障が法律となったその同意は日本の大衆にとってあまりにも不人気だったので岸は（首相の）職から逃亡した。
Last year, Shinzo Abe, the current prime minister of Japan, who happens to be Kishi’s grandson, made his own speech to congress in a bid to shore-up support for amending Japan’s U.S. written constitution that “forever renounce[s] war as a sovereign right of” the Japanese people.10, 11, 12 Although the move to allow the Japanese military to once again wage war is opposed by the majority of the Japanese population, the Obama administration has given Abe its full support. 13,14,15,16
昨年、現在日本の首相である安倍晋三は、たまたま｛運命？命令？）岸の孫だったが、日本の「主権国家としての権利（戦争）を永遠に放棄する」合衆国執筆日本国憲法を変える支援を強化する約束の演説を（米国）議会でした。
Here lies the tragic irony of Obama’s visit to Hiroshima. Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the President lamented, “The capacity of human beings to think up new ways to kill one another proved inexhaustible,” and again in Hiroshima he opined, “Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to cure disease and understand the cosmos, but those same discoveries can be turned into ever more efficient killing machines.” 17,18
ここにオバマのヒロシマへの悲劇的な皮肉がある。ノーベル平和賞を受けた時、この大統領は「人間がお互いに殺しあう新しい方法を考える能力は無尽蔵であることを実証した。」と嘆いたが広島で彼は又「病を治し宇宙を理解する為に海を越えて通信使雲を超えて飛行することを可能にする科学は、その同じ発見の数々を今までよりも更に能率的に殺す機械に転換できるのである」との見解を述べたのである。
Such statements made by a president who believes that “Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice (peace prize speech),” may lead one to ask, “How was justice served by placing a Class A war criminal head of state? 19 Where can one find justice in supporting his grandson’s renunciation of Japan’s “peace constitution?” Where is the justice in the recent authorization of U.S. weapon’s sales to Vietnam? 20 Where lurks justice in a massive assassination campaign, replete with abundant “collateral damage,” via drones? 21 Where can one read justice in the recently released UN report that 65.3 million people were displaced from their homes in 2015 by conflict or persecution, an all-time high?” 22 And most frightening and contradictory of all, “What direction is justice heading in the redesigning our own nuclear stockpile into ‘more efficient killing machines?'”
「我々の行動は重要であり、正義の方向に歴史を曲げることが出来る（平和賞受賞演説）」と信ずる大統領によるそのような言明は人に次のように問わせる、「Ａ級先般を首相に据えて如何にして正義が達成されるのか？」、「彼の孫が日本の「平和憲法」を放棄するのを支援することに誰が正義を見出せるのか？」、合衆国の最近のベトナムへの兵器販売許可のどこに正義があるのか？ドローンでの豊富な「付随損害」に満足する大量暗殺キャンペーンにそもそも正義があるのか（ペテンではないか）？紛争や迫害で2015年に自らの家を追われ路頭に迷う6千5百３０万の人々、史上最高、という最近明かされた国連報告に人は正義を読み取れるのか？そして何よりも最も恐ろしく矛盾することは「我々の核備蓄の”さらなる効率的殺傷兵器”への再設計は正義が如何なる方向へ向かうのか？
Meet bomb B16 Model 12, the first precision guided nuclear weapon with a “dial a yield” setting which allows for the adjustment of its “explosive power.” 23General James E. Cartright, former head of the U.S. Strategic Command and a retired vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Defense Secretary William Perry have respectively stated that such weapons make their use “more thinkable” and raise “the possibilities of a ‘limited nuclear war.'” 24
Standing with Shinzo Abe at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Obama proclaimed:
[I]n the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity’s core contradiction. How the very spark that marks us as a species, our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our toolmaking, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will — those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction. How often does material advancement or social innovation blind us to this truth? How easily we learn to justify violence in the name of some higher cause. 25
He would know.
Sources
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2. Japanese protest security treaty with U.S. and unseat Prime Minister, 1959-1960: click here
3. NOBUSUKE KISHI, EX-TOKYO LEADER: click here
4. America’s Favorite War Criminal: Kishi Nobusuke and the Transformation of U.S.-Japan Relations:http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp11.html
5. Reporting from Shanghai since the 1930s: http://www.johngittings.com/id65.html
6. Unmasking Horror — A special report.; Japan Confronting Gruesome War Atrocity:http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html?pagewanted=all
7. The beheading competition: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=117063
8. America’s Favorite War Criminal: Kishi Nobusuke and the Transformation of U.S.-Japan Relations: http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp11.html
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