日,中新世代互相憎悪感増加

Last month the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

日中の若い世代が憎悪を増幅…佐々江駐米大使

　【ワシントン＝今井隆】佐々江賢一郎駐米大使は２６日の記者会見で、「日中双方の若い世代」がツイッターなどによる応酬で憎悪の感情を「急速に増幅している」と懸念を示した。

　佐々江氏は「お互いに相手の感情を害するようなことをしないよう、古い世代の人たちは国を指導していく責任がある」と語った。

　また「中国は引き続きあらゆる機会をとらえて日本批判のキャンペーンを今後も行っていくだろう」と、中国政府の反日プロパガンダ（政治宣伝）に不快感を示した。

（2014年2月27日20時30分  読売新聞）

(試譯文)

   At a press conference held on the 26^th (February), Ambassador to the U.S. Ken-ichiro Sasae expressed concern over the “quick spreading” of exchanges of hatred feeling between "the younger generation of both Chinese and Japanese" in the twitter etc.”.

Mr. Sasae said "people of the older generation have the responsibility to guide the country so that mutually nothing would be done to hurt a partner's feeling".

Also, displeasure was shown to Chinese government’s anti-Japanese propaganda (political campaign) of "from now on China will also continue to take all opportunities to perform a campaign of criticizing Japan".

(20:30 on February 27, 2014    Yomiuri Shimbun)

It is sad to note that the feeling of hatred between the younger generation in China and Japan is increasing. Could the leadership do something to stop that?

東京「郵政博物館」開幕

Recently the FNN News on-line reported the following:

スカイツリータウンに「郵政博物館」がオープンしました

2013年に閉館した東京・大手町にあった郵便や通信に関する博物館。1日、東京・墨田区のスカイツリータウンに、装いを新たにリニューアルオープンしました。スカイツリータウン・ソラマチの9階にオープンしたのは、「郵政博物館」。
2013年8月に閉館した「逓信(ていしん)総合博物館」の所蔵資料を引き継ぎ、郵便や通信に関するおよそ400点の資料などを展示している。
初日の1日は、オープンを待つ100人の人たちが、長い行列を作った。
並んでいた人は、「愛知県の犬山市から来ました。きのう泊まって。スカイツリー型のポストが楽しみで来ました」、「前の『ていぱーく(逓信総合博物館)』行ったことあるから、楽しみ」などと話した。
およそ33万枚もの切手が展示されているコーナーには、風変わりな切手もあった。
スイス連邦の切手の中には、チョコレートの香りつきの切手が入っている。
さまざまな種類の切手に、訪れた人は、「たくさん、切手が見られてうれしいです」、「きれいなものがあったりするので、意外と切手って、楽しいなと」などと話した。
また、スカイツリーの形をしたポストから、郵便物を投函(とうかん)すると、スカイツリーが入った消印が押されて届く。
また、郵便配達を疑似体験できるシミュレーションゲームや、郵便の歴史を学べるプロジェクションマッピングなど、子どもから大人まで、体験・体感できるコーナーもある。
ゲームをした人は「楽しかったし、また来たい」と話した。
重要文化財のエンボッシングモールス電信機の実物など、日本で初めての展示となる資料も所蔵している。
貴重な郵便の資料を楽しめる博物館に、訪れた人たちも興味津々の様子だった。

(試譯文)

The museum of mail and communication located in Otemachi of Tokyo was closed in 2013. On the 1st it was reopened with a new look in the Skytree town at the Sumida-district of Tokyo. It was "The Postal Administration Museum”, opened on the ninth floor of the Skytree Town Solamachi.

The collections inside the "General Museum on Communications" that was closed in August 2013 were carried forward, and the information detail of some 400 items about mail and communication etc. was exhibited.

On the 1^st, being the first day of its opening, 100 people waited for the opening in a long line.

One person who had stood in a line said "I came from Inuyama of Aichi Prefecture and stayed here since yesterday. The Skytree type mailbox brings me pleasure", “previously I have visited the ‘Teipa-ku (General Communications Museum)’ and it gave me pleasure" etc.

At a corner about 330,000 curious stamps were being exhibited.

For stamps of the Swiss Confederation, some had a chocolate scent.

A person who had looked at various kinds of stamps said that “it was nice to see stamps in large number”, “since there is something beautiful, the pleasure and the stamps are unexpected” etc.

Moreover, the mailbox was in a shape of the Skytree, if a mail was posted, a postmark containing the Skytree would be pressed on it and delivered.

Moreover, there was a corner that had a simulation game which mail delivery could be experienced, also there was a projection mapping which postal history etc. could be studied; both of them could be experienced and felt by children and adults virtually.

A person who played the game said "it is fun and I would like to come again".

Things of important cultural nature such the original Embossing Morse telegraph, together with information materials that were exhibited in Japan for first time were also available. With the precious information about the mail to be enjoyed inside the museum, people who visited would be much delighted.

Probably the museum is another tourist attraction in the Sumida-district of Tokyo.

大阪新地標: 日本最高建築物全面啟用

Yesterday the FNN News on-line reported the following:

日本一高いビル「あべのハルカス」全面開業　大阪の新名所に

ひときわ高い新名所がお目見えした。日本一高いビル「あべのハルカス」が7日、全面開業した。
展望台からの大パノラマに子どもたちも大興奮。
地上60階建て高さ300メートルで、ビルとしては、日本一の高さとなったのが、大阪の新名所「あべのハルカス」。
全面開業した7日、展望台に一番乗りを果たした男性は、大はしゃぎだった。
「あべのハルカス」展望台に一番乗りした男性は「絶叫しました! (景色が)本当にすごかったです」と話した。
夜ともなれば、展望台からの景色は、さらに魅力的になる。
しかし、注目は日本一の高さだけではない。
食い倒れの街・大阪だけに、フロアには44のレストランと61ものスイーツ専門店が並んでいる。
その一方で、買い物の間にゆっくり休める休憩スペースが至るところに設置されていたり、さらに買い物中のお母さんが、子どもを一時、預けることができる施設など、日本一居心地のいい空間を目指す工夫が随所にある。
ホテルや美術館、病院までが詰まった「あべのハルカス」。
年間4,740万人の来場者を見込んでいるという。(03/07 19:19 関西テレビ)

(試譯文)

An exceptionally tall new landmark had made its first appearance. On the 7th the highest building in Japan the "Abeno Harukashu" started business fully. Also, from the observatory deck children were having great excitement with the huge panorama.

It was the new landmark the "Abeno Harukashu" in Osaka, a building that was 60-story in height and 300 meters above the ground. It would become the number one in height in Japan. On the 7th it was opened fully, a man who was the first to arrive at the observatory deck was thrilled.

The man who was the first to arrive at the "Abeno-Harukashu" observatory deck "screamed!” and said “that (the scene) was really uncanny".

Also, when the night fell, the scene from the observatory deck would become even more attractive.

However, the attention was not only just being the number one in height in Japan.

As a town of eating only in Osaka, there were 44 restaurants and 61 special candy stores located in a line at the floor.

Spaces were set aside everywhere so that one could take a rest leisurely during a break in shopping. On the other hand, everywhere there were facilities which aimed at a mother to deposit her child temporarily while shopping; there were devices that aimed at making a place the most comfortable in Japan.

"Abeno Harukashu" had a hotel, an art museum, and a hospital grouped together.

It was said that every year 47,400,000 visitors could be expected.

(03 / 07 19:19 Kansai Television)

     Probably "Abeno Harukashu" would become a tourist attraction in Osaka because of the panoramic view it offers.

發展東京墨田區成為国際観光都市

Yesterday the NHK News on-line reported the following:

墨田区 国際観光都市目指す

3月7日 7時49分

東京スカイツリーがある墨田区は、２０２０年の東京オリンピック・パラリンピックに向けて外国人観光客の増加が見込まれることから、葛飾北斎の作品を集めた美術館を建てるとともにスカイツリーと周辺の観光地を結ぶ旅行プランを開発するなど、国際観光都市としてのまちづくりを進めていくことになりました。

これは、墨田区が新年度・平成２６年度の予算案に盛り込んだもので、およそ１７億４０００万円を国際観光都市としてのまちづくりに充てています。
このうち１１億円は、墨田区に住んでいた葛飾北斎の作品を集めた美術館「すみだ北斎美術館」の着工費として計上しています。
また、墨田区を訪れる外国人を対象に観光に関するアンケートをしたり、東南アジアから旅行会社などを招いてスカイツリーと周辺の観光地を結ぶツアーを開発したりする事業に１０００万円余りを計上しました。
さらに５億７０００万円余りをかけて、スカイツリー周辺で電線を地中化して景観を整えたり段差をなくしてバリアフリーの道路を整備したりすることにしています。墨田区は「オリンピックに向けて外国人観光客が増えるので海外で人気の高い葛飾北斎の美術館を建設し、迎える環境を整えて国際観光都市としてアピールしたい」と話しています。

(試譯文)

Sumida-district, with the Tokyo Skytree, expected an increase in foreign tourists who would come for the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Paralympics in 2020. With the building of an art museum that collected Hokusai Katsushika's work, the plan was to make the city into an international tourist city, for example to push ahead the development of a traveling plan that could connect the surrounding tourist resorts to the Skytree.

Sumida-district incorporated these into its new fiscal year and a draft budget for Heisei 26 fiscal year had appropriated about 1,740 million yen to design the city into an international tourist city.

Among these, for an art museum which collected the work of Hokusai Katsushika who had lived in Sumida-ku, 1,100 million yen had been appropriated as groundbreaking expenses for the “Sumida Hokusai Art Museum".

Moreover, a little more than 10 million yen was appropriated to do a questionnaire survey on sightseeing which targeted at foreigners who visited the Sumida-district, and also to start an adventure to invite tourist companies etc. from Southeast Asia to develop tourism by connecting the surrounding tourist resorts to the Skytree.

Furthermore, a little more than 570 million yen would be spent on the electric wiring around Skytree to make them underground to improve the scene, and to prepare barrier-free roads by eliminating the steps. The Sumida-district was saying that "since foreign tourists would increase in number towards the Olympic Games, I would like to make the Hokusai Katsushika Art Museum popular overseas and, with an improved environment, to appeal to greet this city as an international tourist city".

Hopefully I shall be visiting Tokyo for the Olympic Games in 2020.

美國發表国防計画: 亞洲太平洋地區受重視

Yesterday the FNN News on-line reported the following:

米国防省、国防計画の見直しを発表　アジア太平洋地域重視の方針

アメリカの国防総省は4日、安全保障戦略の指針となるQDR(国防計画の見直し)を発表し、中国の海洋進出などを念頭に、今後もアジア太平洋地域を重視して行く方針を掲げた。
4年ごとに定められる「国防計画の見直し」では、国防予算の削減を受け、陸軍の規模を1940年以来最小となる、44万人程度まで縮小する一方で、海軍や空軍力を維持していく方針を強調した。
また、中国について「軍事費が不透明な形で、速いペースで拡大している」と懸念を示したうえで、アジア太平洋地域重視の方針を掲げ、海軍部隊の6割を2020年までに太平洋地域に重点配備するほか、日本や韓国など、アジアの同盟国との関係強化を進めるとしている。
また、北朝鮮のミサイル探知のため、日本国内に2つ目となる早期警戒レーダーを設置する方針も表明した一方で、沖縄の海兵隊のグアム移転費が減額されるなど、厳しい財政事情を反映した形となった。(03/05 20:12)

(試譯文)

On the 4th the Department of Defense of the United States announced it’s QDR (Quadrennial Defense Review) which was an indicator for its security strategy; it showed a continuation of up-holding the plan which considered the Asia-Pacific region as important, bearing in mind China’s advance at sea etc.

In this "Quadrennial Defense Plan" which was prepared quad annually, a reduction in the national defense budget was noted. While reducing the army scale to about 440,000 people which was the minimum since 1940, a plan to maintain the navy and air power was emphasized.

Moreover, because concerns were shown over China as "its military expenditure is not transparent and is being expanded at a quick pace", the US would up-hold the plan that focused on the Asia-Pacific region, with a strategic deployment of 60 percent of its navy units in the Pacific Ocean region to be carried out by 2020. Also it was supposed to push ahead the strengthening of ties with allies in Asia, such as Japan and South Korea.

Moreover, while announcing a plan to install the 2nd set of early warning radar in Japan for the detection of North Korea missiles, for the Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa, the Guam relocation expense would be reduced. This situation reflected that there was a tight financial condition.

(03/05 20:12)

     With a strategic deployment of 60 percent of its navy units in the Pacific Ocean region, the presence of the US in Asia would become more obvious.

韓国希望慰安婦資料登錄成「記憶遺産」

Last month the NHK News on-line reported the following:

韓国 従軍慰安婦の資料を「記憶遺産」に

2月11日 22時23分

韓国政府は、いわゆる従軍慰安婦の問題について、関係する記録のユネスコの「記憶遺産」への登録を目指すなど、国内外の関心を呼び起こす取り組みを強化すると発表し、韓国の立場に対する国際社会の共感を得ることで、日本への圧力を強める構えです。

これは、韓国のチョ・ユンソン女性家族相が１１日、パク・クネ大統領にことし取り組む事業の計画として報告した中で明らかにしたものです。
計画では、韓国国内で、いわゆる従軍慰安婦の問題に対する国民の意識を高めるため、記念日を設けて学生らが参加する文化祭を行うなどとしています。
さらにこの問題を国際世論に訴えるため、アメリカや中国などで関連する資料を調査、収集したうえで、ユネスコの「記憶遺産」への登録を目指すとしています。
女性家族省は、先にフランスで開かれた国際漫画祭で従軍慰安婦をテーマにした展示会を企画し、「大きな反響を巻き起こすことができた」と評価しており、今後、韓国の立場に対する国際社会の共感を得ることで、日本への圧力を強める構えです。

日本政府関係者「極めて遺憾だ」

韓国政府の発表について、政府関係者は「この問題に関する日本政府の立場や、『アジア女性基金』の創設などの取り組みを軽視したもので、極めて遺憾だ。詳細を確認したうえで、政府内で今後の対応を協議したい」と話しています。

(試譯文)

About the so-called comfort women question, the South Korean government announced their aim to get the related records registered as "Memory Heritage" of UNESCO etc., and to strengthen measures that could stir up concern within and outside the country so as to obtain the sympathy of the international community towards South Korean’s position; all these indicated an intention to strengthen the pressure on Japan.

In her report submitted to President Park Ohakune on the 11th (February) Cho Yun Son the Minister of Gender and Family of South Korea clarified the above in a plan about business to be tackled this year.

In this plan, it was supposed to hold a cultural festival etc. in South Korea and a memorial day should be prepared for students to participate in so as to raise the national awareness to the so-called comfort women question.

Furthermore, in order that this question could generate some international attention, the supposition was to aim at a registration in the "Memory Heritage" of UNESCO, after all the related data were investigated and collected in the United States and China.

The first plan for the Female and Family ministry was to hold a show in France during an international comics festival with the theme of comfort women, and it was calculated that "a big echo could be created". From now on, the intention was to base on the sympathy obtained from the international community towards South Korea to strengthen the pressure on Japan.

Japanese government officials "very regrettable"

Regarding South Korean government’s announcement, an administration official said that "it is very regrettable that both the position of the Japanese government on this question and that the effort to set up an 'Asian Women's Fund' had been neglected. After checking the details, we would discuss our future response within the government".

     Obviously South Korea is trying to draw the attention of the international community to the question of “comfort women”. It seems that nationalism is given more attention by the South Korea Government recently.

日本申請將神風特攻隊員遺書登録成記憶遺産

Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:

特攻隊員遺書の記憶遺産登録 中国が反対

2月11日 0時05分

太平洋戦争末期、九州などから飛び立った特攻隊員の遺書や手紙について、ユネスコの「記憶遺産」への登録を目指そうとする日本国内の動きについて、中国外務省の報道官は、「日本の軍国主義の美化をたくらむもので、ユネスコの基本理念に完全に背いている」と述べ、登録に反対する姿勢を示しました。

鹿児島県南九州市知覧町の知覧特攻平和会館では、太平洋戦争末期に九州を中心とした基地から出撃して亡くなった特攻隊員が家族に宛てた遺書や手紙など、およそ１万４０００点を保管・展示しています。
南九州市によりますと、このうち書いた特攻隊員が特定されている遺書や手紙など３３３点について、今月４日、英語への翻訳作業を終え、「知覧からの手紙」と題し、ユネスコの「記憶遺産」への来年の登録を目指して申請手続きを行いました。
これについて、中国外務省の華春瑩報道官は、１０日の記者会見で、「日本の軍国主義による侵略の歴史の美化と、第２次世界大戦後の国際秩序に対する挑戦をたくらむものだ」と批判しました。
そのうえで、「このような意図は、世界の平和を守るというユネスコの基本理念に完全に背いており、国際社会の強い非難と断固とした反対に遭うだろう」と述べ、登録に反対する姿勢を示しました。

(試譯文)

On the motion by Japan in trying to register as the "Memory Heritage" of UNESCO the wills and letters written by kamikaze pilots who took off from Kyushu etc. at the final stage of the Pacific War, the press secretary of the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that "it is planned for the beautification of militarism of Japan and the basic philosophy of UNESCO is disobeyed completely" and showed a posture of opposing to the registration.

In the Chiran Kamikaze Peace Hall in Chiran-district of Kagoshima’s South Kyushu city, about 14,000 items were kept and exhibited, such as wills and letters addressed to families written by kamikaze pilots who departed from the bases centering on Kyushu and died during the last stage of the Pacific War.

According to the South Kyushu city, among the about 333 items such as wills and letters specifically written by the kamikaze pilots, the translation work into English was completed and was entitled "the letters from Chiran". The procedure to apply to the "Memory Heritage" of UNESCO was performed on the 4th of this month (February) and the aim was getting a registration by next year.

About this, at the press conference on the 10th (February) Hua Chunying the press secretary of the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized that “it’s a beautification of the history of invasion by militarism of Japan and is a plan to challenge the international order after World War II".

Furthermore she said "the intention has disobeyed completely the basic philosophy of UNESCO of keeping the peace in the world, and will definitely encounter strong blames from the international community", and showed a posture of opposing to the registration.

Before making the conclusion that the motion is aiming at the beautification of the history of invasion by Japan’s militarism, I think many factors should be considered, such as the way the facts were presented and the angle the matter was understood. To say the least, it could be an anti-war effort by showing how miserable humanity could be during a war. The American had suffered most from the Kamikaze attacks during WWII; I am interested in knowing their viewpoints when Japan’s application reached UNESCO.