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【ニューヨーク18日時事】小泉純一郎首相の靖国神社参拝について、18日付の
米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズは「無意味な挑発」と題する社説を掲載し、「首相
は日本軍国主義の最悪の伝統を公然と奉ずる挙に出た」などと厳しく批判した。
社説は「靖国神社は韓国や中国および東南アジアの大部分に非道なつめ跡を残
した日本の暴虐を鼓吹している」などと指摘し、参拝は「日本の戦争犯罪により
犠牲となった人々の子孫を意図的に侮辱するもの」と断じた。
（時事通信） - 10月18日17時1分更新
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20051018-00000097-jij-int
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/opinion/18tue3.html
Editorial
Pointless Provocation in Tokyo
Published: October 18, 2005
Fresh from an election that showcased him as a modernizing reformer,
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan has now made a point of
publicly embracing the worst traditions of Japanese militarism.
Yesterday he made a nationally televised visit to a memorial in central
Tokyo called the Yasukuni Shrine. But Yasukuni is not merely a memorial
to Japan's 2.5 million war dead. The shrine and its accompanying museum
promote an unapologetic view of Japan's atrocity-scarred rampages
through Korea, much of China and Southeast Asia during the first few
decades of the 20th century. Among those memorialized and worshiped as
deities in an annual festival beginning this week are 14 Class A war
criminals who were tried, convicted and executed.
The shrine visit is a calculated affront to the descendants of those
victimized by Japanese war crimes, as the leaders of China, Taiwan,
South Korea and Singapore quickly made clear. Mr. Koizumi clearly knew
what he was doing. He has now visited the shrine in each of the last
four years, brushing aside repeated protests by Asian diplomats and,
this time, an adverse judgment from a Japanese court.
No one realistically worries about today's Japan re-embarking on the
road of imperial conquest. But Japan, Asia's richest, most economically
powerful and technologically advanced nation, is shedding some of the
military and foreign policy restraints it has observed for the past 60
years.
This is exactly the wrong time to be stirring up nightmare memories
among the neighbors. Such provocations seem particularly gratuitous in
an era that has seen an economically booming China become Japan's most
critical economic partner and its biggest geopolitical challenge.
Mr. Koizumi's shrine visits draw praise from the right-wing nationalists
who form a significant component of his Liberal Democratic Party.
Instead of appeasing this group, Mr. Koizumi needs to face them down,
just as he successfully faced down the party reactionaries who opposed
his postal privatization plan. It is time for Japan to face up to its
history in the 20th century so that it can move honorably into the 21st.
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