日韓関係因為竹島主權問題轉差

Yesterday the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

両国関係「悪い」、日本７１％…日韓共同調査

読売新聞社と韓国日報社は３月２２～２４日、日韓両国での新政権発足を受けて共同世論調査（電話方式）を実施した。

　昨年８月、韓国の李明博(イミョンバク)大統領（当時）が島根県の竹島を訪問したことなどで日本側の韓国に対する評価や感情が急速に悪化し、現在の日韓関係が「悪い」とする回答は７１％と、前回２０１１年の２７％から急増。１９９５年以降計９回の調査で最高となった。韓国でも、「悪い」と思う人が７８％（前回６４％）に上り、国民意識の面でも、関係悪化が鮮明になった。

　互いの国を「信頼できない」という回答も、日本で過去最高の５５％（同３７％）を記録し、韓国でも８０％（同７７％）に上昇した。

　李氏の竹島訪問については、日本で「適切でなかった」が８６％を占めたが、韓国では対照的に「適切だった」が６７％に上った。日韓関係をより良くするために優先して解決すべき問題（複数回答）でも、「竹島をめぐる問題」が日本で６８％、韓国で７２％に上り、ともにトップを占めた。

（2013年4月5日22時10分 読売新聞）

 

(試譯文)

The Yomiuri Shimbun and the Hankook Inc. carried out a join opinion poll (by telephone) from March 22nd to 24th in response to the new government's inauguration in Japan and in South Korea.

   The evaluation on the feeling in Japan over South Korea had gotten worse quickly because South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (Lee Myung-bak) (at that time) visited Takeshima of the Shimane Prefecture in August last year. Regarding the reply on the current  Japan-Korea relation, 71% said it was "worse", being a rapid increase from 27% of last time in 2011. It became the highest among the total nine investigations held since 1995. Even in South Korea, those who thought it was "bad" went up to 78% (from 64% last time), and in respect of the national consciousness it became clear that the relationship had also deteriorated.

   Regarding the mutual trust between the two countries, the reply "not reliable" was the highest ever recorded in Japan: at 55% (previously 37%); in South Korea it even went up to 80% (previously 77%).

   About Mr. Lee's visit to Takeshima, in Japan 86% thought "it was not appropriate"; yet in South Korea in contrast those thought "it was appropriate" went up to 67%. As for what problems (multiple answers) should be given the priority to deal with in order to improve the Japan-Korea relations, "the problem involving Takeshima" went up to 68% in Japan while it went up to 72% in South Korea. This problem occupied the top position in both countries.

It seems that Takeshima is a sensitive topic between Japan and South Korea.

日本「零式」戦機後継戦機「烈風改」設計圖曝光

Yesterday the FNN on-line reported the following:

「零戦」後継機として計画されていた「幻の戦闘機」の設計図発見

太平洋戦争の末期に、「零戦」の後継機として計画されていた「幻の戦闘機」の設計図が、群馬・藤岡市の博物館で見つかった。
藤岡市の藤岡歴史館で見つかったのは、太平洋戦争末期の1944年ごろに、「艦上戦闘機」、いわゆる「零戦」の後継機として計画されていた戦闘機「烈風改」の設計図17枚。
烈風改は、試作機さえも作られないまま終戦を迎えてしまったため、「幻の戦闘機」とも呼ばれている。
藤岡市教育委員会文化財保護課・軽部達也係長は「個人のお宅でこれだけの枚数の(烈風改の)図面が残されているということは、初めてのことだと思います」と話した。
設計図は、烈風改のほかにも、零戦などの設計も手がけた地元出身の航空技術者・堀越二郎さんの遺品から見つかった。
烈風改は、アメリカ軍のB29爆撃機に対抗するために、飛行高度1万メートルを想定して設計された。
設計図からは、機種名が記載されている部分が破り取られているが、これは、戦闘機などの資料の廃棄を命じていたGHQ(連合国軍総司令部)の監視から逃れるためだったと考えられている。
この設計図は、7月の企画展で一般に公開される予定だという。

(試譯文)

The design maps of the "phantom fighter plane" intended to be the succeeding machine of the "Zero" fighter plane in the last stage of the Pacific War was found in the museum in Fujioka, Gumma.

What were found at the Fujioka history hall in Fujioka were 17 designs of the fighter plane "Reppuukai" intended as the machine succeeding the "Zero" fighter plane which was also called "Type Zero fighter on board a battleship", starting around 1944 being the last stage of the Pacific War.

Because the Reppuukai came at the end of the war, even an experimental model had not been built at that time, it was thus called "the phantom fighter".

Tatsuya Karube, the chief official of the Fujioka Municipal Board of Education’s Preservation of Cultural Properties Division said that "I think it is the first time that several copies of the drawing (of the Retsubuukai) are found being left behind in individual’s private home".

The design of the Reppuukai was found together with other personal effects left behind by the deceased aviation engineer Mr. Jiro Horikoshi, a local graduate who had dealt with the design of the zero planes etc.

The Reppuukai was designed to have a flight level 10,000 meters in order to challenge the B29 bomber of the U.S. Forces.

Although the portion that indicated the model name was broken from the design maps, it was thought that this was for the purpose of escaping from the surveillance of the GHQ (Allied forces General Headquarters) which had ordered the abandonment of the data about this fighter plane.

It was said that the design maps were scheduled to be exhibited to the general public in July.

I think the drawings are valuable documents to study the Japanese history during WWII.

上海批發市場發現Ｈ７Ｎ９型病毒

Yesterday the Yomiuri news on-line reported the following:   上海の卸売市場のハトからＨ７Ｎ９型ウイルス 　【北京＝竹内誠一郎】中国農業省は４日、上海市内の卸売市場で採取したハトのサンプルからＨ７Ｎ９型のウイルスを検出したと発表した。 　中国から同型の感染者が初めて確認された３月３１日以降、動物から同型ウイルスが検出されるのは初めてとみられる。 　農業省によると、ウイルスの遺伝子を分析した結果、感染者から採取したウイルスと由来がほぼ一致したという。同省は当面、同型ウイルスに対し、口蹄疫(こうていえき)などと同様に強制措置を伴う対応を適用することを決定、上海市内の市場に疫病予防措置を取るよう指示した。 （2013年4月4日22時45分 読売新聞）   (試譯文)

China’s Department of Agriculture announced on the 4th that it detected the H7N9 type virus from the sample of a pigeon taken in the wholesale market in Shanghai.

Since March 31 when the type of virus that affected people was confirmed in China, it was for the first time that the same type of virus was detected in an animal.

The Department of Agriculture said that the result of analyzing the gene of the virus showed that it was mostly in agreement with the origin of the virus which was extracted from the infected person. The ministry for the time being, facing the same type of virus, determined to take enforcement measures correspond to dealing with such as the foot and mouth disease etc. and gave directives to take epidemic preventive measures in the markets in Shanghai.

It seems that the market in Shanghai may be a source of the virus.

在中国有120萬人死於大気汚染

Yesterday the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:

中国:大気汚染で１２０万人死亡　１０年、死者の１５％

毎日新聞　2013年04月03日　21時16分

　【北京・工藤哲】中国で、２０１０年に大気汚染が原因と疑われる症状で早死にした人が１２０万人を超え、この年の死者数の約１５％に上ったとの調査結果を、清華大（北京市）などが発表した。今年は天候の影響で当時より汚染が悪化、国民の健康被害の一層の拡大が懸念されている。

　２日付の経済紙「２１世紀経済報道」が報じた。それによると、３月３１日に清華大で開かれた研究会で、清華大と、米国の医療研究所との合同調査の結果として発表された。

　呼吸器や循環器の疾患を引き起こす微小粒子状物質「ＰＭ２．５」が関連すると疑われる症状による１０年の死者は▽脳血管疾患が約６０万人▽肺疾患が約２０万人▽虚血性心疾患が約２８万人▽呼吸器感染が約１万人▽気管や肺などのがんが約１４万人−−に達し、合計１２３万４０００人に上った。大気汚染は中国で食中毒や高血圧、喫煙などと並ぶ健康上のリスクと位置づけられるという。

　一方、３日付の北京紙「京華時報」によると、中国気象局のまとめで、今年３月に中国全土をスモッグが覆った日が３．３日で、平年より１．１日多く、過去５２年間の同期比で最も多かった。また北京市環境保護局によると、ＰＭ２．５より大きな粒子「ＰＭ１０」が市内で１月は前年同期の平均値より約５割多く、１〜３月も前年同期の平均値より３割増えていた。湿度や風速が過去１０年で最も小さかったことが大気汚染の悪化を引き起こしたという。

(試譯文)

In China the people who died young due to symptoms suspected to be related to the air pollution had exceed 1,200,000 in 2010; the Qinghua University (Beijing) with others released the results of an investigation which showed that this figure was more than 15% of the total death toll of that year. This year, due to the influence of the weather, the contamination had worsened. There was anxiety about an increase in the impairment of people’s health.

The financial newspaper "The 21st century economy report" dated the second of April reported this. According to it, the result was announced on March 31 by a study group held in Qinghua University as a result of a joint survey of the Qinghua University and a medical institute in the U.S.

In ten years the people killed with the symptoms suspected to be related to the minute particulate matter "PM2.5" which could cause diseases in the respiratory organs and the circulatory organ were -- cerebrovascular disease about 600,000 people ▽ lung disease about 200,000 people ▽ ischemic heart disease about 280,000 people ▽ respiratory infection about 10,000 people ▽ tracheal gill and lung cancer caused about 140,000 people; in total it went up to 1,234,000 people. It was said that in China air pollution was regarded as a health risk ranked among food poisoning, high blood pressure, smoking, etc...

On the other hand, according to the Beijing paper “Jinghua Times" dated the 3rd, the China Meteorological Administration concluded that in March this year there were 3.3 days which the whole country of China was covered by smog, being 1.1 days more than in a normal year, and it was the highest for the same period in the past 52 years. Moreover, according to the Beijing Environmental Protection Agency, in the city in January the "PM10", which had particles bigger than PM2.5, was about 50 percent more than the average value of the corresponding period last year, and there was a 30 percent increase compared to the average value of the corresponding period of last year between January and March. It was said that humidity and wind velocity were the lowest in the past ten years and thus aggravated the air pollution.

I think the air pollution situation could be improved if China has the determination to improve it.

日中漫画展在南京舉行

Last week the NHK news on-line reported the following:

反日感情で延期の日中漫画展開催 南京
3月24日 20時52分

沖縄県の尖閣諸島の国有化をきっかけに、日中関係が悪化したことで延期されていた日本と中国の漫画家の作品を集めた展示会が、２４日から中国の南京で始まりました。

この展示会は、中国東部の江蘇省と友好提携を結んでいる愛知県などが開きました。江蘇省の中心都市、南京の会場には、日本と中国合わせて５０人余りの漫画家が、地球の未来の姿をテーマに描いた作品が展示されています。
もともとは、日中国交正常化４０周年の記念行事として、去年９月に開かれる予定でしたが、尖閣諸島の国有化をきっかけに、日中関係が悪化したため、開催が延期されていました。
開幕式で愛知県の大村知事は「日中の間には、さまざまな課題があるが、それを乗り越えて、お互いに利益になるような関係をつくりたい」とあいさつしました。そして、大村知事が大きな紙に、「中日友好」と筆で書いたあと、日本人の漫画家が、日本と中国の国旗を持った子どもとパンダが、楽しそうに笑っている様子をその場で描き、中国側に贈りました。
会場には、大勢の家族連れや学生などが訪れ作品を見て感想を話し合ったり、写真を撮ったりしていました。
中国の大学生の女性は「中国と日本が友好関係にあることが、結局は、どちらにとっても利益となるのですから、友好を築くよう、双方が努力すべきだと思います」と話していました。

(試譯文)

An exhibition which collected the works of the cartoonists from Japan and China, that had been postponed because of the worsen Japan-China relations due to the nationalization of the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, was held on the 24th (March) in Nanjing in China.

This show was held by the Aichi Prefecture which was, on friendship ties, connected to the Jiangsu province in eastern China. With regard to the participating cartoonists from Japan and China, in total a little over 50 of them had gathered at a hall in Nanjing which was the central city of Jiangsu. All the works exhibited had a theme centered on the outlook of our earth in future.

At the beginning it was scheduled to be opened in September last year as a memorial event of the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties between Japan and China, but because of the Japan-China relations got worsen due to the nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, its opening was postponed.

At the opening ceremony greetings Governor Omura of Aichi Prefecture said that "Although various subjects had occurred between Japan and China, I would like to overcome them and to build a relation that would generate mutual benefits". After that Governor Omura, using a brush, wrote "China-Japan friendship" on a big paper, then a Japanese cartoonist presented to the China side a drawing depicting a child and a panda holding the national flags of Japan and China and laughing happily.

In the hall, many students came to visit and families came as a group. The works were seen, comments were discussed and photographs were taken.

A Chinese college female student was saying that "because to have a good relationship between China and Japan would benefit both parties after all. We should build friendship and I think both sides should try hard".

It seems that the worst moment for Sino-Japanese relationship is over. Probably some behind-the-scene negotiations might have been carried out.

中國凍結北韓在華可疑資金

Yesterday the FNN on-line reported the following:

中国政府が、国内の銀行にある北朝鮮の不正口座を摘発し、日本円で1,130億円以上の資金を凍結したことが新たにわかった。
中朝関係筋によると、中国政府は、上海を中心とした中国国内の銀行にある北朝鮮の口座のうち、架空名義のものや、不正取引に関与している疑いのある28の口座を摘発、総額で75億元(およそ1,137億円)の資金を凍結したという。
これらの口座と資金は、金正恩(キム・ジョンウン)第1書記直属の「39号室」と呼ばれる外貨獲得機関が、管理していたものとみられている。
中国はこれまで、国内にある北朝鮮の不正口座を黙認してきたが、国連の経済制裁を受けて、今回初めて、金融規制を強化した。
中国の北朝鮮への対応の変化を示したものとして、注目される。

(03/29 12:16)

(試譯文)

It was newly known that the Chinese government had exposed the improper accounts of North Korea opened at a domestic bank in China, and had frozen a fund of over 113 billion yen in Japanese yen.

According to the China-North Korea related source it was said that the Chinese government, among the accounts opened by North Korea at a bank in China centering on Shanghai, had exposed 28 accounts that had fictitious names and suspected to have participated in unfair dealings, and in total a fund of 7,500 million Yuan (about 113,700 million yen) was frozen.

Regarding the accounts and the funds, it was concluded that they were managed by a foreign-currency acquisition organization called "Room 39” which was under the direct control of the First secretary Kim Jong Eun.

Although China had so far tolerated the improper accounts opened by North Korea in China, this time for the first time it tightened up financial regulation in response to the economic sanctions of the United Nations.

It was observed that China had shown a change in its response towards North Korea.

It is an interesting development. May be the situation in Korea is reaching a turning point.

蘋果多機能端末操作系統市場佔有率下跌

Recently the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:　

米調査会社ＩＤＣは１２日、米アップルのタブレット型多機能情報端末「ｉＰａｄ（アイパッド）」の出荷台数が今年初めて、米グーグルの基本ソフト（ＯＳ）「アンドロイド」搭載端末に逆転されて２位になるとの見通しを発表した。

　タブレット型端末向けＯＳの世界シェア（市場占有率）で、「ｉＰａｄ」のＯＳ「ｉＯＳ（アイオーエス）」は２０１２年の５１・３％から１３年に４６・０％に低下する一方、アンドロイドは４６・３％から４８・８％へ上昇するという。

　１３年のタブレット端末の出荷台数見通しは、低価格商品の販売増が見込まれるとして、前回予想の１億７２４０万台から約１億９０９０万台へ上方修正した。

（2013年3月13日21時00分 読売新聞）

(試譯文)

On the 12^th the U.S. rating firm IDC announced their forecast. For the first time this year the shipment number of the tablet type multifunctional information terminals "iPad" of Apple of the U.S. would rank second. It was reversed by the U.S. Google "Android" operating system (OS) loading terminal.

It was said that by the world share (market share) regarding the OS for tablet type terminals, while the OS of "iPad" - the "iOS" would fall from 51.3% in 2012 to 46.0% in 2013, the share of Android would go up from 46.3% to 48.8%.

The prospect of the shipment volume of tablet terminals for 2013 was revised upward from the previous anticipation of 172,400,000 sets to about 190,900,000 sets, noting that there could be an increase in the sales of the low end products.

It seems that the peak period of Apple is passing.