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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:04:51 +0900
From: IWAKAWA <iyasu@jca.ax.apc.org>
Subject: [pmn 10593] Re: 石原暴言録を国際的に広めたいのですが
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A series of indiscreet and irresponsible remarks
by
Ishihara Shintaro, Tokyo governor, who tries
to force
the "militarization of the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government"
=======================================================
Ishihara's troublesome remarks that were done
between August 1999 and February 2000.
April 9, 2000.
Inoue Sumio
◆No competition for 4 years, enabling Ishihara to act like a
president.
(An interview in a conservative monthly magazine
"VOICE" with Ijiri
Kazuo, president of the Research Institute on Japanese
Culture,
Takushoku University)
Ishihara: Once I am elected as governor, I can do
whatever I want for
4 years. The position has more legitimacy than those
of prime minister
and other cabinet ministers, so I can exercise "executive"
power.
("VOICE", August 1999 edition, published by the PHP Research
Institute)
◆Ishihara's perception : "Japan will disappear if I died".
(Related remarks are introduced from "My View of
War", that
appears later)
(From a talk with Kobayashi Yoshinori, cartoonist
who has justified
Japan's mistakes committed during the Second
World War era)
Ishihara: I think that anybody should make up his
mind to do anything
he wants if he perceives he is someone chosen.
I, I do believe that Japan will disappear as a nation
once I was dead
(smile).
So to speak, I have a sense of unity with Japan
in my body.
("SAPIO", August 25 and September 8, 1999 editions. SAPIO
is a
conservative magazine published by Shogakukan)
◆Japan's postwar Constitution should be annulled and replaced
by a new
one to raise the Emperor as the head of state and
to have Japan become
the world-strongest defense nation.
(From a talk with Kobayashi Yoshinori, above-mentioned)
Ishihara: Japan is always dependent on others, but the United
States is
trying to do anything by itself. This is the most crucial difference
between the two countries. Japan should be able to act in accordance
with its national ability. If the constitution is an obstacle
for
Japan's independent actions, we simply annul it. However, it
is
technically impossible to change it, so the Diet (Japan's parliament)
should make a motion to annul it. The resolution passes the
Diet if the
majority voted in favor. If a new constitution were created,
the right
of self-defense can be clearly defined in it. My strong belief
is that
Japan should become the world-strongest defense nation to make
as many
world's best fighter planes as possible and to sell them to
foreign
countries. This is what Japan should do.
("SAPIO", August 25 and September 8, 1999 editions. A talk
with
Kobayashi Yoshinori)
(An interview with the "Shukan Post", Japan's weekly magazine)
Interviewer: How should the constitution be?
Ishihara: As Mr. Nakasone (Yasuhiro, Japan's former prime
minister)
insists, it should be written in noble Japanese appealing
to the
sensitivity of the Japanese people, based on all the ethnicity
and
tradition of Japan.
However, the Article 9 (forbidding Japan from being involved
in any
war) of the Japanese Constitution is out of the question.
The most
important role of a nation is to be sovereign and protect
the lives
and property of the people, isn't it? The Article 9 has
let Japan
forget about the role and fully depend on the US.
("Shukan Post", January 14/21, 2000 edition. "Bombshell
remarks" :
The constitution that is favorable to the US cannot defend
people's
lives and property - Ishihara Shintaro "The present constitution
must be 'annulled', not be 'revised'".
(An interview with Oshima Shinzo, chief editor
for the "Seiron",
another conservative monthly magazine)
Ishihara: The Emperor should definitely be the head
of state.
("Seiron", March 2000 edition. Title: "Judging men and
women in
Nagatacho". Nagatacho: The district where Japan's parliament
is
located)
◆That war was moving after all.
(A talk with Kobayashi Yoshinori, above-mentioned)
Ishihara: I was going to the Shonan Junior High School
that was like a
preparatory school to become a marine. If I had
been there two years
earlier, I would be in a battlefield as a navy officer.
I want to talk about my experience in summer of
1945, the final year
of World War II. We students were mobilized to an
airfield in Atsugi
(50 km west of Tokyo). We became friends with soldiers
just in a
week. One day, we heard a secret rumor "There will
be a large-scale
air battle today", and 27 or 28 fighter planes were
dispatched to the
south. Most of them didn't come back, and the maintenance
staff said,
"If they didn't return till that time, they won't
for ever. We heard
some planes land on the way back or dive out everywhere,
but we were
not sure because we could not access telephones
very easily.
Some reserve soldiers were just sitting down beside
the runway, being
worried about their fellows. Still, one plane made
an emergency
landing, and all of us helped carry the injured
fighter.
That was a nation. I never feel sad whenever I remember
this scene.
It was really moving. I think from the deep bottom
of my heart that
I was together with the soldiers for the nation
(Ishihara wipes his
tears).
Another thing I remember is that I encountered air
attacks on my way
home from school. We were running to a train that
was stopping. Then,
we were attacked by enemy carrier-based planes.
We hid, but one of
us was shot. We tried to rush into the forest ahead.
Other planes
came close to us while we were among low furrows
of potatoes. There
was nowhere to hide and we had to keep running,
but the places never
shot us. Why? Because they were dark brown and marked
with the
rising sun, symbol of Japan. It was so vivid and
made our bodies
tremble. That feeling was even stronger than the
joy from seeing the
Japanese flag in the Olympic games.
("SAPIO", August 25 and September 8, 1999 editions. A talk
with
Kobayashi Yoshinori)
(A talk with Fukuda Kazuya, conservative critic)
With regard to war, it is easy to condemn it as being
cruel, but the
reality is that various kinds of technology could
be developed as a
result of full of human wisdom to fight all-out
war. Moreover, we
human beings have accumulated our history probably
from a mixture of
ridiculous and noble things in battlefields. This
is our fate. Nobody
knows whether such a situation as no war is possible
is totally
virtue for the people and countries. ("Sankei Shimbun",
January 4,
2000. Title: "A New Year Seiron Talk" with Fukuda
Kazuya. Seiron: A
sound argument)
◆ (War cooperation) Local governments need to be prepared
to throw
their lives.
(In an interview with "VOICE")
Ishihara: Once a war broke out near Japan and it
could destroy this
country, there is no choice for local governments.
They have no room
to insist on their egoism. In such a case, I will
totally cooperate
to the nation.
("VOICE", August 1999 edition. Published by the PHP Research Institute)
(A talk with Kobayashi Yoshinori)
Ishihara: In the (Japan-US Defense Cooperation) Guidelines, the
US
completely assumes a war with China over Taiwan.
If there were some
local governments that would not cooperate the guidelines,
this may
cause the disappearance of our country with regard
to China's
possession of nuclear weapons. I'm the governor
of Tokyo, but I will
say, "Please use all the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
facilities
necessary to the defense of Japan in case of emergency".
Local
governments need to be prepared to die for defending
our nation.
("SAPIO", August 25 and September 8, 1999 editions. A talk
with
Kobayashi Yoshinori)
(In an interview with Oshima Shinzo, chief
editor for the "Seiron"
magazine)
Ishihara: A certain media sent a questionnaire to
all the governors
in Japan. The question was "How does your prefecture
cooperate with
the new Guidelines once they become effective?"
It was only me who
answered that I would cooperate with the nation
unconditionally.
The nation first, then comes Tokyo.
("Seiron", March 2000 edition. Title: "Judging all the
men and women in
Nagatacho)
◆Thanks to Japan's participation in the war over colonies,
they could
gain independence after World War II.
(A talk with Kobayashi Yoshinori)
Ishihara: Modern history must be taught at schools.
However, the only
historical principle in the modern era was imperialism.
Colonized by
the Western powers or colonizing. These were the
only choices at that
time. That was because Japan joined such colonizing
nations. But,
thanks to Japan, nationalism emerged everywhere
in the world and
ex-colonies could gain independence after the end
of World War II.
Right?
("SAPIO", August 25 and September 8, 1999 editions. A talk
with
Kobayashi Yoshinori)
(A talk with Fukuda Kazuya)
Park Chung Hee, former Korean president, told me
about this story.
Ex-soldiers around him start to say, "Japan is evil"
as they get
drunk. Then, Mr. Park begins to talk about his experience,
calming
them, "Just a moment".
He came from a very poor farming family, so he nearly
gave up taking a
higher education. However, young Park could go to
school thanks to
Japan's introduction of a compulsory education system
into Korea that
was under the Japanese rule. He graduated from the
Manchuria Military
School at the head of his class. This enabled him
to continue his
study at the Army Academy in Japan, and he could
graduate from it.
Japan gave such opportunities to such Korean boys
as young Park.
Mr. Park reminisced about the past, saying, "Japanese
did some wrong
things like having forced us to change our names
into Japanese ways,
but in general, they were fair to us".
("Sankei Shimbun", January 4, 2000. Title: "A New Year
Seiron Talk"
with Fukuda Kazuya)
◆An explicit anti-China sentiment - "We must divide China".
(The Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro visited
the Tokyo Metropolitan
Police Headquarters on November 24, 1999 for
the first time since he
was inaugurated into the post last April.
He received an explanation
from Noda Ken, Chief of the Police, about
the increasing number of
crimes committed by foreigners, such as illegal
stays of Chinese.
After the visit, Mr. Ishihara told news reporters
as follows)
There are too many crimes committed by illegally
staying Chinese. I
don't know how the Chinese government recognizes,
but, with regard to
the money to aid a country manufacturing hydrogen
bombs, it is much
better for Japan to spend it for the safety of Tokyo
and the
prevention of crimes of Chinese.
("Asahi Shimbun", November 25, 1999)
(A talk with Fukuda Kazuya)
Ishihara: If Japan followed the US blindly and abandoned
Taiwan, it
will be a very critical historical error for Japan
because our
country will then become a dependency of China.
Fukuda: That's right, because Okinawa wouldn't be
able to stay as a
part of Japan.
Ishihara: I agree with you. Then, Senkaku and Uozuri
Islands, on
which I built lighthouses, will sink in an instant,
and Spratly
Islands and Hoansa Islands will be completely annexed
by China. That
is, its expansionism will be almost accomplished.
What can we do to
stop the expansion of Chinese?
What is a strategy for Japan? What ability does
Japan have? It is a
financial asset that is abundant. I always say that
we should go
ahead with such a strategy as create autonomous
regions around China
immediately by using the Japan money.
If this move spread throughout China, Japan can
spend its money more
effectively instead of using it in favor of Beijing
and encourage
activities to divide China.
Yes, we must divide China. Japan should help accelerate
such actions
as much as possible and take the initiative once
the division is in
sight.
("Shokun", a conservative monthly, March 2000 edition.
A talk with
Fukuda Kazuya. Title: In a country without strategy -
Are we simply
waiting for Japan's fall in the international society?)
(In an interview with Oshima Shinzo, chief editor for "Seiron")
Interviewer: The majority of foreign criminals (in
Japan) are Chinese
and Iranians.
Ishihara: I visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Headquarters on
November 24 of last year (1999). In the Scientific
Investigation
Research Institute, I knew how cruel the Chinese
Black Society
(mobster world) is.
They peal the skin in the face of traitors as a
warning. I saw the
face be back to normal thanks to the technology
of the institute.
Such a cruel act has never been seen here in Japan.
New styles of
crimes have appeared, that Japanese have never thought
of.
("Seiron", March 2000 edition. Title: "Judging all the
men and women in
Nagatacho)
(In response to a question from Yamazaki Yasushi
in a plenary
session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
February 29, 2000)
With regard to a question, "How shall we deepen
the friendship with
the city of Beijing which has continued for 20 years?",
I don't feel
the sense toward it so strongly as the governor.
The Communist regime
has recently started to say such a stupid thing
as "Okinawa used be a
territory of China". It wants not only the Senkaku
Islands but also
Okinawa.
("Tokyo Shimbun", March 1, 2000. A commentary on
the report: The
friendship cities relationship between Tokyo and
Beijing was
established in 1979. Its history is the second longest
after that
with New York, which began in 1960)
◆I will carry out a comprehensive drill to cope with an earthquake
disaster by mobilizing the Self Defense Forces on
September 3, 2000.
(In a talk with Tokuda Torao, director general of
the Tokushu-kai, a
medical corporation)
Tokuda: I heard a joint disaster-prevention drill
be carried out
between the Ground, Marine and Air Self Defense
Forces and the Tokyo
Metropolitan Government in September, next year
(2000). This is a
very good plan. I recommend you to add medical staffs.
Ishihara: Of course, I will do it.
I have various ideas including medical care for
the drill. I'm not
sure how strong the next earthquake will be in Tokyo,
but if
pedestrian overpasses fell down, nobody can go over
the rubbles
without using tanks. Of course, doctors cannot get
to the
disaster-stricken sites. How can we invite those
who have experienced
parachuting training in the Self Defense Forces?
How shall we
establish medical bases for them? It will cost a
large amount of
money only for the preparation, but I think we should
do whatever
necessary to prepare for the worst case.
("Shincho 45", another conservative monthly, December
1999 edition. A
special talk : "Doctors can never be cured unless they
die")
(In an interview with Oshima Shinzo, chief
editor for "Seiron")
Ishihara: Tokyo is clean.
Oshima: Cleanliness and safety are the most important
for towns.
Ishihara: Westerners who come to Japan are impressed
with its
cleanliness and safety, but the safety has been
threatened by
illegally staying foreigners. The contents and ways
of crimes
committed in Tokyo have dramatically changed.
Taking a suggestion from Mr. Nakasone (Yasuhiro,
former prime
minister), we will carry out a comprehensive drill
to cope with an
earthquake disaster on September 3, this year. Prime
minister Obuchi
(Keizo) also agreed to this plan. We will mobilize
all the Ground,
Marine and Air Self Defense Forces then.
Then, I said, "It was a pity that many Koreans were
killed due to
demagoguery when there was the Great Kanto Earthquake,
but I'm afraid
that they will be murdering us Japanese when the
next big earthquake
hits Tokyo".
As seen in Los Angeles, illegally staying foreigners
may loot such
shopping districts as Shinjuku and Ikebukuro. I
requested training to
blockade towns by the use of tanks and armored cars
as a
demonstration to cope with such plunder.
Oshima: Oh, please take care. If you say something
like 'tanks', the
media will sensationalize it.
("Seiron", March 2000 edition. Title: "Judging all the
men and women in
Nagatacho)
◆ Abandon "worship to the US" and create the "Greater Asia
Yen Sphere".
(In an interview with "Gendai", a monthly
magazine)
Ishihara: Japan is so exploited by the US. It is also a financial
slave
of the US. Why is it so afraid of America? Japan doesn't need
to care
the security treaty with the US at all. If America complains
to Japan
about the treaty, we just ask the US Army to get out of Japan.
At
present, this country has enough military technology and budget,
so we
make it become a strong defense nation by using its money and
ability.
Then, we should do what the US is most afraid of. Japan sell
US
Treasury bonds (it has bought about 3 trillion dollars). It
will be
criticized as pulling a trigger of the Depression, but this
is Japan's
turn to drop atomic bombs.
The world economy will sink after Japan sells all its Treasury
bonds.
Then, which country or region will recover first? It will be
Japan and
East Asian Nations that can make high quality products. The
best
manufacturing country, Japan, as admitted by the US, will survive.
And
the East Asian nations also have manufacturing technology and
a high
standard of education. Therefore, the "Greater Asia Yen Sphere"
will be
established.
("Gendai", December 1999 edition. A special story: A series
of 10
exciting opinions "I can't leave without saying this")
◆ "New ethical training"
(In street oratory during the gubernatorial
election campaign. April
5, 1999)
Junior high school and high school girls prostitute
themselves by
using telephone clubs. This is because we left everything
to the
Ministry of Education and Culture about education.
I would like to
start new ethical training to be introduced to all
the schools in
Tokyo. It must begin at elementary schools.
(In an interview with the "Shukan Asashi Geino",
a weekly magazine)
Ishihara: We should introduce new ethical training,
not the moral
training (that was done before World War II). It
will take about 15
years to achieve a success. It is much better to
do it than not to do
it. The Ministry of Education and Culture didn't
do anything at all.
Everybody do nouvelle vague, because all local governments
follow
what Tokyo does.
("Shukan Asahi Geino", April 15 edition. Title: "Ishihara
Shintaro
declares independence of 'Tokyo'")
◆Remarks to discriminate the handicapped people.
(In a press conference after Ishihara visited
the Fuchu Care Centre
that houses those heavily mentally and physically
impaired in Fuchu
city on September 18, 1999)
Do they have personalities? I was really shocked.
I haven't drawn a
conclusion. I wonder how you feel.
They can never be cured. They don't know who they
are. They were born
as human beings but have been in such situations...
However, it will
be only Japan that does this kind of thing.
Somebody will say it is great. On the other hand,
Westerners will
abandon such people, I think. I suppose this is
a difference of
religious views. That issue seems to lead to euthanasia.
(Asked why he referred to euthanasia) I meant that
someone would
connect that issue with euthanasia. I never say,
"have them be
euthanized".
("Asahi Shimbun", September 18, 1999, morning edition)
◆The Yokota Air Base should be used jointly by the military
and the
civilians.
(In an interview with the "Shukan Asahi Geino")
Interviewer: What are you going to do once you were
elected as the
Tokyo governor? Is the first thing the return of
the Yokota Air Base
to Japan?
Ishihara: Yes, that is one of the things. I knew
it was a bean ball,
a sort of bluff. The base won't be totally returned
to Japan.
However, it can be used jointly by the military
and the civilians
like those in Bonn and Frankfurt, Germany.
Interviewer: How is the base used specifically?
Ishihara: It can be used jointly, as I said. Like
the Misawa Air Base
(in the northern tip of the Honshu main Island).
It can be used as
the Tokyo's third airport (after Narita and Haneda).
International
flights can be operated from there. Then, it is
much more accessible
for the people in Yamanashi Prefecture (a neighboring
prefecture to
Tokyo in the west). Also, the people in the Tama
area (a Western part
of Tokyo) told me that they needed to stay one night
at Narita when
they used that airport (to take international flights).
That's
because I insist that Yokota should be used as the
third airport. I
think the US will accept this request.
("Shukan Asahi Geino", April 15 edition. Title: "Ishihara
Shintaro
declares independence of 'Tokyo'")
Airport has the ripple effect economically. Look
at Haneda. It can be
operated 24 hours a day now and was equipped with
one more runway.
Then, its economic effect is more than a trillion
yen.
("VOICE", August 1999 edition. Published by the PHP Research
Institute)
翻訳しているうち、石原慎太郎という人物の品性下劣ぶりに改めて背筋が寒くな
ってきました。ディーゼル車閉め出しと銀行税（後者は賛否両論あるようですが）
は評価したうえで、石原氏にはもうお引き取りいただくのがいいでしょう。氏に
居座られては、それこそ国益に関わります。
岩川 保久
iyasu@jca.ax.apc.org