有中國傳媒技巧地繼續報道高鐵事件

Recently the Yomiuri News reported the following:
中国の有力経済紙「２１世紀経済報道」は１日、乗客１０６人が死亡した２００５年４月のＪＲ福知山線脱線事故を１ページを使って紹介し、日本の事故処理を評価した。
　浙江省温州の高速鉄道事故に対する報道規制が強化される中、不公正な中国の事故処理を暗に批判したものだ。
　記事は、福知山線事故の業務上過失致死傷事件が審理中であることに触れ、「原因調査や民意聴取、責任追及は精密に、細心に行われる」とする学者の見解を紹介。事故調査は独立した委員会が監督者の立場で行い、報告書は３００ページにも及んだとしている。
　これに対し、中国の鉄道省は監督官庁と現業部門を併せ持ち、同省に所属する警察、検察、裁判所が事件処理を担当。温州の事故では、同省が政府の調査グループに加わり、証拠隠滅疑惑に世論の批判が集まっている。また、記事は「被害者の遺族は公開の法廷で陳述し、半数以上がまだ賠償交渉を続けている」とし、賠償で署名を強要する中国との違いを強調している。
(試譯文)
The "Economic Report of the 21st Century", as a powerful economic newspaper in China, on the first used the first page to introduce the JR Fukuchiyama line derailment accident in which 106 passengers had died in April, 2005, and to evaluate the processing of this accident in Japan.

In face of the strengthened restriction imposed on the press in reporting the Wenzhou high-speed railway accident of Chechinag province, the paper tacitly criticized the unfair processing in China over the accident.

The article touched on the trial over the professional negligence that had resulted in death and wound in the Fukuchiyama line accident, and introduced the opinion that the scholars had "precisely and carefully done the investigation on the cause, listened to the public opinion, and pursued the responsibility". Regarding the accident investigation, an independent committee was set up to discharge the supervising role; and the report had extended to as much as 300 pages.

In contrast, in China the railway ministry controlled the supervisory authority and the industrial civil service section; the police, the prosecution, and the court that all belonged to this ministry took charge in processing the event. In this accident in Wenzhou, the ministry joined the investigation group of the government; and public criticism had gathered and suspected the destruction of evidence. Moreover, the article showed that "the victim's bereaved family had made their statements at the court that was open to the public, and that more than half are still continuing with the compensation negotiation", and emphasized the difference in China that requested the signature on compensation by coercion.

It is nice to note that the newspaper is discharging its moral duties despite the pressure from the authority.