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4/16のイシハラ氏の植民地発言を契機に、その思想と言動を海外メディアも仔細に展開
今日2つめのエントリーです。
さて、好戦的なレイシストかつ、歴史修正主義者で国粋主義者のイシハラ都知事の過去にさかのぼるあまたの言動の歴史、そして、今回のIOC調査初日というタイミングでの、4月16日、かつての被支配国の方々、さらには国際社会を敵に回すこととなった新たな大妄言（※）について、歴史修正主義者のお仲間からは、のんきに（今が21世紀であることも忘れて）「よくやった」と持ち上げる様子も見られるらしいのですが、当然ながら、海外ジャーナリズムは、お政府様主導の日本のメディア並に生暖かくて、「優しい」はずがありません。
ということで、韓国の英文紙The Seoul Timesとアメリカの地方紙Chicago Tribuneも、この発言に対し、怒りに満ちた告発記事を配信していますので、このエントリーで少し紹介します。
その怒りは、歴史的な背景やオリンピック開催候補地の競合関係にあるがゆえのものではなく、ちょうど、わたし達が東京都で働いたり、生活したりしながら感じるのと同じような性質のものであることが分かります（記事を読めば）。
ご存知の方が多いと思いますが、妄言について、ごく短く報道した記事を紹介します。
（※）東京新聞
石原都知事発言は「妄言」と報道 韓国メディア
2009年4月17日 13時41分
http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/s/article/2009041701000558.html【ソウル１７日共同】東京都の石原慎太郎知事が１６日の記者会見で「日本の（朝鮮半島）統治は公平で優しかった」などと発言したことについて、韓国メディアは１７日、「妄言」と伝えた。
聯合ニュースは東京発の記事で「石原氏がまた妄言」と報道。内容に加えて、石原知事について「以前にも人種差別や性差別的な発言をした」と指摘し「日本の保守・右傾化を主導している」とした。ＫＢＳテレビも「妄言」として内容を報じた。
石原知事は１６日、国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）評価委員会による現地調査の初日を終えての記者会見で「欧州の植民地統治に比べ、日本の統治は公平で優しかったと故朴正熙元大統領から聞いた」などと述べた。
・・・オリンピックや東京マラソンになると、いつもの批判的精神がいきなりどこかに飛んでいってしまう東京新聞ですが、さらっと何気なく、あまりにすごいことが説明されています。
招致活動にも、とりわけ今回のIOCへのおもてなしそれにあらゆる粉飾にも多額の費用をかけ、用意周到に湾岸乱開発や築地の官製地上げをオリンピック招致で正当化させようとする（という言い方が偏見でないことを示すかなり「興味深い情報」もあり、いずれご紹介できると思います）茶番劇に、職員やアスリート、さらには子どもたちまで駆り出し翻弄させておきつつあげくにこの言葉ですから、本気で「招致したくてたまらない」と思っていた人（どんな理由かは別として）も、これには腰が砕けたのではないでしょうか。
または、イシハラ都知事の毎度ながらのちょっとした「行き過ぎた」だとして、当人およびその周辺は、事の深刻さをあまり捉えていないのでしょうか。
あるいは、「21世紀版の、最後まで日本軍は戦争に勝ち続けているのだ報道」を繰り返しているだけなのでしょうか。
わたしは、もうちょうどいい機会ではないか、と思います。
すでに気の遠くなるような血税（これがあれば、どれだけの現在を生きる生命を救えたことでしょうか）がどぶに捨てられた形になってはいますが、これでようやく手仕舞いとすべきタイミングが訪れたのではないでしょうか。
オリンピックのために溜め込んだ9000億円を速やかに憲法に則って戻していただき、「すみませんでした、もう諦めます」とおっしゃっる機会が今だということです。
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国内では、少なからず「またか」と呆れて受け流す様子もあったり、「また怒らせたのか」と小さく受け止めるような向きも耳にしますが、韓国のこのニュースは非常に的確で、かつ厳しく問題をえぐっています。
The Seoul TimesJapan under Ishihara Must Not Be Given the 2016 Olympics
By Lee Jay Walker Tokyo Correspondent
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8225
とても長くなりますが、最後に全文転載させていただきます。
あ、ただし時間がないので英文のままです（汗）。
ただし、「イシハラの元では2016年のオリンピック（の開催地）が日本に与えられるべきではない」とするこの記事を、最初と最後だけ簡単に「超訳」すると、こんな感じ↓です。
IOCには、イシハラ都知事が歴史否定主義者であるだけでなく、中国・韓国に対する憎悪をみなぎらせた危険極まりない異端の者であって、その言動のすべてを知らされていなくてはならないのだ。
で始まり、
こうした（記事では、一連の尋常ならざるイシハラ言動を英文できちんとリストアップしてあります）状況を踏まえて、もしイシハラの暴言や外国人に与える脅威や、女性をステレオタイプに扱うことが危険だと感じるのなら、IOCの各委員や、あなたの地元の政治家にこのことを通報するのは必須です。
もし皆が黙っていればイシハラが2016年のオリンピック招致に勝つようなこともありえて、そうなった場合、平等と国際社会に対する悲劇となります。
つまり、各個人、そして組織が、反イシハラ運動を行う責務があります。
と、つまり世界平和のための反イシハラ運動への呼びかけで締めくくっています。
冷戦時代に東西陣営に利用されたオリンピックが（またそこには、過剰な商業化のそしりもありますが）、イシハラの手によってまた同じように使われることへの警鐘も鳴らされています。
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さらに、4つの立候補都市のひとつ、有力とされているシカゴの地方紙Chicago Tribuneの記事も、歴史的な事実をリンクに含んだ熱の入ったものとなっています。
「なあに、シカゴは競合地域だから、東京を悪く言っているだけ（ネガキャン）だよ」などと鼻で笑う人もいるのかもしれませんが、この記者の怒りはもはや単なるポーズでないと思えます。
chicagotribune.com
Originally posted: April 17, 2009
Tokyo 2016 can only wish its governor would go away
By Philip Hersh
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/sports_globetrotting/2009/04/tokyo-2016-can-only-wish-its-governor-would-go-away.html
ここでは、IOC評価委員来日にあたりこの発言をしたことは、人々の長く記憶に残る歴史的な事柄になるだろう、として、またイシハラ氏を「国粋主義者」（ultra-nationalist）であると過去事実を元に紹介しています。
また、この木曜の会見が、イシハラ都知事が「とてつもない」ことをやらかしたということにすぐにIOC評価委員は気づかなかったとしても、まあ当然これは世界中にすぐに広まっていくという事実や、そして、招致委員会が、この失態の被害を最小化するために、記者会見の後に居残りさせられて、わざわざ、都知事閣下はオリンピックの長期的なベネフィットがあると深ーくお考えであるのだ、とか、オリンピックの平和と協調と友好の理念をうんぬん、などと釈明させられていることを書いています。
また、外国人に対する問題発言を示したNYタイムズの2000年の記事にもリンクを張っています。
記者のブログもあり、ソウル・タイムスの記者の県警を引用してもいますね。
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/sports_globetrotting/2009/04/with-a-week-to-put-things-in-perspective-a-few-reflections-on-the-olympic-committee-evaluation-commissions-visit-to-chica.html
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それでは、ここからが2つの記事です。
できれば、リンク先で関連情報などを併せてお読みください。
The Seoul TimesJapan under Ishihara Must Not Be Given the 2016 Olympics
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8225Shintaro Ishihara (石原 慎太郎), who was on Sept. 30, 1932, is a Japanese author, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999.
The Olympic Committee must be given all the facts about the Governor of Tokyo because Shintaro Ishihara is not only a denier of history; he is a dangerous maverick who installs anti-Korean and anti-Chinese hatred. Not only this, we are talking about a rampant sexist who made an alarming comment about the role of women in society. Ishihara also belittled Africans in another tirade and the only reason he remains so silent recently, is because the nationalist leader of Tokyo understands that he is under the international spotlight. Therefore, it is essential to enlighten people about this individual who stokes up hatred towards others via un-logical outbursts of inhumanity.
We must all remember that the spirit of the Olympics is about unity and all nations unifying under the banner of sport. In the past the Olympics was sometimes hijacked by both ideological sides during the Cold War. However, in recent times the Olympics is back on track but if Ishihara emerges victorious then the games will become tarnished.
I stated in an earlier article that "Ishihara desires to leave a legacy but the real legacy of Ishihara is being anti-Korean, anti-Chinese, and anti-foreign in general. I am not talking about mild nationalism but an extreme version of anti-Korean and anti-Chinese nationalism which is based on dangerous grounds. This applies to historical revisionism and when this applies to an important political figure like Ishihara, it is clearly dangerous. Therefore external forces must notify others about the consequences of awarding Tokyo the Olympics under such a blatant revisionist of history."
Given the reality of the Governor of Tokyo, then surely this issue must be raised because it is in complete contradiction to the Olympic ideal. I also wonder why the Olympic Committee is even entertaining the current Tokyo 2016 bid under such a blatant nationalist.
Therefore, my conclusion is that the Olympic Committee does not understand the true nature of Ishihara and the same applies to the other bidders of the 2016 Olympic Games. Also, it would appear that people who are in the know are not raising their voices loud enough. Yet just imagine if Tokyo was awarded the 2016 Olympics. It would mean a victory and a legacy for a nationalist leader who denies the real impact of the Rape of Nanking and he supports other forms of revisionism.
In 1990, Ishihara clearly denies one of the worst massacres of the 20th century, and we are talking about a century which had numerous terrible massacres. Ishihara made it known in a Playboy interview that the Rape of Nanking was merely fiction because he claimed that "People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie." Also, more recently he backed the film The Truth about Nanjing, which also claims that the Nanking Massacre was Chinese propaganda and based on false history.
So would the Olympic Committee award Germany if the local governor denied the Jewish and Gypsy holocaust during the NAZI period? Of course not, indeed the individual would face criminal charges for inciting hatred. Yet sadly, and to my amazement, both the Olympic Committee and the people of Tokyo are not speaking out enough against such an important political leader.
Of course I am not saying that Tokyo should not be awarded a future Olympic Games, certainly not; however, Tokyo should be prevented from holding the 2016 Olympic Games under the current political leader. If Tokyo emerges victorious then clearly it will become "a very dark day" in the chapter of the Olympic Games.
Other obnoxious comments by Ishihara include an extremely sexist statement and just think about what he said. For in 2001 Ishihara stated in the Shukan Josei magazine that he subscribed to the theory that "old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin." He is therefore implying that women are no longer fit to be alive and that they are useless once their reproductive function is over.
It is surely hard to surpass such a terrible and cold-hearted comment but of course Ishihara did not apologize. So I wonder what he thinks about female sport stars?
Turning back to the often used "racial card" by Ishihara, then he clearly understood what he was implying when he stated "Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners. We can expect them to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake."
For people who do not understand the real meaning of this statement, then let me enlighten you a little. During the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake many massacres took place whereby Koreans were killed like lambs to the slaughter. These brutal killings took place because some Japanese newspapers made terrible false rumors. Therefore, thousands of Koreans were butchered and other ethnic groups, notably Okinawans, also suffered at the hands of nationalists.
For Ishihara, he fully understood what he was implying and this sums up the character of this person. So what would happen today if an American leader stated that slavery was ok? Yes, he or she would rightly suffer the consequences but for Ishihara he wants to keep nationalism alive and in its worse form.
So if you are alarmed by the rants of Ishihara and the menace he poses to foreign nationals and the stereotyping of women, it is vital that you contact your respective member of the Olympic Committee and your local politician. Ishihara may win if people remain silent but if Tokyo does win the 2016 Olympic bid then it will be a sad day for equality and the international global village. Therefore, it is up to individuals and organizations to campaign against Ishihara.
では、Chicago Tribuneの記事です。「これは知事問題だ」で始まっています。
chicagotribune.com
Originally posted: April 17, 2009
Tokyo 2016 can only wish its governor would go awayBy Philip Hersh
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/sports_globetrotting/2009/04/tokyo-2016-can-only-wish-its-governor-would-go-away.htmlThe governor problem.
It could have haunted Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics had Rod Blagojevich not been impeached after his arrest on political corruption charges last December.
It is haunting Tokyo's bid because the governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, once again stirred up enmity with his words at a Thursday press conference, which took place during the International Olympic Committee evaluation commission's visit to the Japanese capital.
No wonder, as my colleague Ed Hula reported in Around the Rings (aroundtherings.com), Tokyo bid officials tried to prevent Ishihara from answering a question about Korean feelings that the IOC should reject Tokyo because of comments the governor previously had made about Japan's 35-year subjugation of Korea and other historically sensitive subjects.
I pointed out those feelings in a Blog earlier this week. A western journalist raised them in the opening question of the Thursday press conference.
Hula, on the scene in Tokyo, sent me this transcription, from the official translation, of what Ishihara answered:
``I never said that governing Korea was all correct. I never said that. But it's a matter of comparison. European developed counties had some colonies in Asia. And compared to the governance of those colonies, in comparison to what they did, Japanese governance was gentle and fair and equitable. And I heard this comment directly from (Korean) President Park, so I commented on this once.''
I will leave it to Koreans to decide whether the Japanese rule was ``gentle and fair and equitable.'' And there is no doubt European countries oppressed and abused (and worse) many of their colonial populations.
But history records brutal Japanese repression of Korean liberation movements; confiscation of Korean land; and forced conscription of Korean men for Japan's army and of Koreans as laborers in Japan.
There is an Olympic component to that history as well.
A Korean, Sohn Kee-chung, was forced to take a Japanese name, Son Kitei, and run in Japan's colors when he won the 1936 Olympic marathon in Berlin. (In 1948, Sohn carried the newly independent Korea's flag at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics; in 1988, he was among the final torch-bearers in the opening ceremony of the Seoul Olympics.)
Gov. Ishihara long has been known as an ultra-nationalist. In his 1989 book, ``The Japan that Can't Say No,'' Ishihira called the 1937 Rape of Nanjing (China) a fabrication, even though evidence shows Japanese troops killed tens of thousands of Chinese in what has been called ``The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.''
The New York Times reported that in a 2000 speech, Ishihara referred to immigrants as sangokujin, a derogatory term used in Japan after World War II to tell Korean and Japanese residents to leave. Ishihara said such residents were likely to riot after a major earthquake and that, according to the Tmes story, ``Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners.''
Such comments don't exactly jibe with the ideals espoused by the Olympic movement. They also refuel longstanding enmity toward Japan in Asian countries, like Korea and China, that remain upset by Japan's incomplete acceptance of responsibility for its actions in World War II (and, in Korea's case, after imperialist Japan annexed Korea in 1910).
A recent revival of nationalism in Japan -- as exemplified by statements like Ishihara's -- has exacerbated the animosity. No wonder the Tokyo bid worries about getting little support from IOC members in other Asian countries.
Yet Tokyo 2016 officials committee trumpet the role Ishihara is playing in their bid, sending out a press release earlier this week emphasizing the ``major role'' the governor was to have during the evaluation commission visit.
Even if the IOC visitors were not immediately aware that the governor had done something major Thursday -- a big misstep -- there is no doubt his words would quickly resonate around the world.
So the bid committee was left scrambling to minimize the impact of Ishihara's latest gaffe. It issued a statement saying, ``Governor Ishihara is deeply committed to the long-term benefits of the Olympic Games. This includes the principles of peace, harmony and friendship through the region.''
But, as Hula noted in a Thursday dispatch from Tokyo, the statement did not address what Ishihara said abut Korea.
Nor, may I add, did it address his swipe at Europe, which has nearly half the IOC members who will vote Oct. 2 for the 2016 host.
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