ブッシュ政権の路線を主導したと言われるネオコン主義者たち。その論客の１人フランシス・フクヤマ氏はイラク戦争の破綻に直面して「『９・１１』をイラクと結びつけたことが詐欺だ」と、「転向」を宣言した。そのフランシス・フクヤマ氏（ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学教授）が英ガーディアン紙（3月26日付）に寄稿し、日本の憲法９条改定がアジアでの孤立をまねいていると、米国でも懸念が強まっていると分析した。しかしながら、ネオコンからの「転向」を宣言したとはいえ、この寄稿はなおも米国の戦争を基本的に支持する立場からのものである。

フクヤマ氏は、遊就館という戦争賛美の博物館を持ち、12人のＡ級戦犯を合祀する靖国神社を、「型破り」の小泉首相が立て続けに参拝したこと。その後継者の安倍首相が（
「慰安婦」問題に見られるような）独断的で謝罪拒否的日本の建設にいっそう邁進していることに触れ、「日本はドイツと違って太平洋戦争での自国の責任と向き合ってこなかった」と述べ、こうした国家主義の高まりのなかで、戦力不保持と戦争放棄を謳った憲法９条を改定する動きが日本で強まっていることにアジア諸国が懸念し、日本が孤立していることを指摘した。

また、こうした事態に「日本の再武装を支持し憲法９条改定の後押しをしてきたアメリカが困難な立場に置かれている」とし、日本がイラクから小派遣部隊を撤退させた今、ブッシュ大統領は安倍首相に率直にものを言うことになるだろう、と結論づけた。

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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/francis_fukuyama/2007/03/the_trouble_with_japanese_nati.html
Straight talking（The Guardian）
Now that Japan has withdrawn its troops from Iraq perhaps Bush will speak plainly to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about his inflammatory behaviour?
March26,2007 8:30AM

Barely half a year into his premiership, Japan's Shinzo Abe is provoking anger across Asia and mixed feelings in his country's key ally, the United States. But will the Bush administration use its influence to nudge Abe away from inflammatory behaviour?

Abe's predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, was a mold-breaking leader, reviving Japan's economy, reforming the postal savings system, and smashing the long-ruling Liberal Democratic party's faction system. But Koizumi also legitimised a new Japanese nationalism, antagonising China and South Korea by his annual visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. If anything, Abe is even more committed to building an assertive and unapologetic Japan.

Anyone who believes that the Yasukuni controversy is an obscure historical matter that Chinese and Koreans use to badger Japan for political advantage has probably never spent much time there. The problem is not the 12 Class-A war criminals interred at the shrine; the real problem is the Yushukan military museum next door.

Walking past the Mitsubishi Zero, tanks, and machine guns on display in the museum, one finds a history of the Pacific war that restores "the Truth of Modern Japanese History." It follows the nationalist narrative: Japan, a victim of the European colonial powers, sought only to protect the rest of Asia from them. Japan's colonial occupation of Korea, for example, is described as a "partnership"; one looks in vain for any account of the victims of Japanese militarism in Nanjing or Manila.

One might be able to defend the museum as one viewpoint among many in a pluralist democracy. But there is no other museum in Japan that gives an alternative view of Japan's 20th century history. Successive Japanese governments have hidden behind the Yushukan museum's operation by a private religious organisation to deny responsibility for the views expressed there.

That is an unconvincing stance. In fact, unlike Germany, Japan has never come to terms with its own responsibility for the Pacific war. Although socialist prime minister Tomiichi Murayama officially apologized to China in 1995 for the war, Japan has never had a genuine internal debate over its degree of responsibility, and has never made a determined effort to propagate an alternative account to that of Yushukan.

My exposure to the Japanese right came in the early 1990's, when I was on a couple of panels in Japan with Watanabe Soichi, who was selected by my Japanese publisher (unbeknownst to me) to translate my book The End of History and the Last Man into Japanese. Watanabe, a professor at Sophia University, was a collaborator of Shintaro Ishihara, the nationalist politician who wrote The Japan That Can Say No and is now the governor of Tokyo.

In the course of a couple of encounters, I heard him explain in front of large public audiences how the people of Manchuria had tears in their eyes when the occupying Kwantung Army left China, so grateful were they to Japan. According to Watanabe, the Pacific war boiled down to race, as the US was determined to keep a non-white people down. Watanabe is thus the equivalent of a Holocaust denier, but, unlike his German counterparts, he easily draws large and sympathetic audiences. (I am regularly sent books by Japanese writers that "explain" how the Nanjing Massacre was a big fraud.)

Moreover, there have been several disturbing recent incidents in which physical intimidation has been used by nationalists against critics of Koizumi's Yasukuni visits, such as the firebombing of former prime ministerial candidate Kato Koichi's home. (On the other hand, the publisher of the normally conservative Yomiuri Shimbun attacked Koizumi's Yasukuni visits and published a fascinating series of articles on responsibility for the war.)

This leaves the US in a difficult position. A number of American strategists are eager to ring China with a Nato-like defensive barrier, building outward from the US-Japan security treaty. Since the final days of the cold war, the US has been pushing Japan to rearm, and has officially supported a proposed revision of Article 9 of the postwar constitution, which bans Japan from having a military or waging war.

But America should be careful about what it wishes for. The legitimacy of the entire American military position in the far east is built around the US exercising Japan's sovereign function of self-defence. Japan's unilateral revision of Article 9, viewed against the backdrop of its new nationalism, would isolate Japan from virtually the whole of Asia.

Revising Article 9 has long been part of Abe's agenda, but whether he pushes ahead with it will depend in large part on the kind of advice he gets from close friends in the US. President Bush was unwilling to say anything about Japan's new nationalism to his "good friend Junichiro" out of gratitude for Japanese support in Iraq. Now that Japan has withdrawn its small contingent of troops, perhaps Bush will speak plainly to Abe.

In cooperation with Project Syndicate, 2007.

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