13. 無段活用 2013年5月11日 00:21:35
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要約って、これでしょう？米国議会調査局サイトでは拾えなかったので、アメリカ
科学者連盟サイトより。http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33436.pdf ------------------------------- Summary Japan is a significant partner for the United States in a number of foreign policy areas, particularly in terms of security priorities, from hedging against Chinese military modernization to countering threats from North Korea. The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward deployment of about 49,000 U.S. troops and other U.S. military assets based in Japan in the Asia-Pacific. Japan has struggled to find political stability in the past seven years. Since 2007, six men have been prime minister, including the current premier Shinzo Abe, who also held the post in 2006-2007. His Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) returned to power in a landslide election in December 2012. Japan’s leaders face daunting tasks: an increasingly assertive China, a weak economy, and rebuilding from the devastating March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. In recent years, opposition control of one chamber of parliament has paralyzed policymaking in Tokyo and made U.S.-Japan relations difficult to manage despite overall shared national interests. Abe is unlikely to pursue controversial initiatives before the next national elections, for the Upper House of parliament (called the Diet) in July 2013. Perhaps most significantly, the United States could become directly involved in a military conflict between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islets in the East China Sea. Comments and actions on controversial historical issues by Prime Minister Abe and his cabinet have raised concern that Tokyo could upset regional relations in ways that hurt U.S. interests. Abe is known as a strong nationalist. Abe’s approach to issues like the so-called “comfort women” sex slaves from the World War II era, history textbook s, visits to the Yasukuni Shrine that honors Japan’s war dead, and statements on a territorial dispute with South Korea will be closely monitored by Japan’s neighbors as well as the United States. The massive and immediate humanitarian relief provided by the United States following the March 2011 “triple disaster” bolstered the bilateral alliance, but difficult issues remain, particularly those related to the stationing of marines on Okinawa. Washington and Tokyo have agreed to relocate several thousand marines from Okinawa to Guam and other locations in the region, but the two governments have been unable to make tangible progress on implementing a 2006 agreement to relocate the controversial Futenma Marine Corps Air Station to a less densely populated location on Okinawa. In addition, the U.S. Congress has restricted funding for therealignment because of concerns and uncertainty about the cost of the realignment plans. Japan is one of the United States’ most important economic partners. Outside of North America, it is the United States’ second-largest export market and second-largest source of imports. Japanese firms are the United States’ second-largest source of foreign direct investment, and Japanese investors are the second-largest foreign holders of U.S. treasuries. In April 2013, the United States and the 10 other countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations completed discussions with Japan and invited Tokyo to join the talks. Accordingly, the Obama Administration notified Congress of its intent to launch negotiations no earlier than 90 calendar days hence. Japan’s membership in the TPP, if an agreement is reached, would constitute a de facto U.S.-Japan FTA. Congress must approve implementing legislation if the TPP is to apply to the United States. Japan’s participation in the talks could enhance the credibility and viability of the TPP, which is a core component of Administration effort s to “rebalance” U.S. foreign policy priorities toward the Asia-Pacific region. If successful, the negotiations could reinvigorate a bilateral economic relationship that has remained steady but stagnant, by forcing the two countries to address long-standing, difficult issues. On the other hand, failure to do so could indicate that the underlying problems are too fundamental to overcome and could set back the relationship. ------------------------------------ 読むと分かるけど、慰安婦を"sex slave"ときちんと書いてくれている。 イギリスやフランスなどのメディアが問題の経緯や日本の立場も含めて公平に
伝えてくれるようになっているのを知っているので、やはり、これには悪意を感じ
る。 有り体に言えば、慰安婦をダシにして日本を悪者扱いしているのは、主に、
中国と韓国と米国ということで、それを改めて認識した。 あとは、TPPについて、"Congress must approve implementing legislation if the
TPP is to apply to the United States. "「TPPが米国に適用されるようになるなら、
議会は法律の発効を承認しなければならない」ときちんと書いているから、TPPが
これで一歩近づくという、ちょっといやなものを感じた。 "Comments and actions on controversial historical issues by Prime Minister Abe
and his cabinet have raised concern that Tokyo could upset regional relations in
ways that hurt U.S. interests. "「安倍首相とその内閣による、論争の的となってい
る歴史的諸問題についての発言と行動のために、日本政府は米国の利益を損
ねるやり方で、地域の関係を動揺させる可能性があるとの懸念が高まっている」
と、確かにある。ただ、申し訳ないけど、この手の話はあちこちで読んできたので、
今更、これには特に感慨はない。
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