英語版で8/14総理の戦後70年談話を検証してみます。外務省は信じられませんので。一読して非常によくできています。事実に裏打ちされていますので、欧米、中韓とも文句のつけようがないはずです。でも中韓にとって日本は金づるなので何かは言ってくるでしょうけど。これで村山、小泉の為した談話は意味をなさなくなりました。騙し討ちでなされた出自がいかがわしい村山談話の中味を相当変えて上書きしたものです。4つのキーワードの「植民地支配」「侵略」「痛切な反省」「心からのおわび」は引用と言う形で紹介されました。首相は「両談話を全体として引き継ぐ」と言ってきたこともあり、歴史の事実としての両談話を否定はできない（中韓だったら簡単に否定できるでしょうけど）ので盛り込みましたが、そこにｳｴｲﾄがある訳でないのは明瞭です。
西洋のアジアの植民地化、アジア初の立憲政治、日露戦の勝利でアジア、アフリカの人々を勇気づけた事が正しく盛り込まれています。また、原爆投下・東京大空襲・沖縄戦を情け容赦なく・無慈悲にもと言うﾆｭｱﾝｽに英語ではなっています。大東亜戦争は大恐慌後の経済ブロック化が原因と言うのも触れられています。憲法9条を逆手にとって「我々は国際紛争の解決手段として力の行使を決してしない」とか植民地統治は放棄するとかの主語の「我々」と言うのは世界の人々を指し、中国を牽制したと読めなくもありません。迷惑をかけたアジアの近隣諸国民としてインドネシア～中国まで（順序効果あり）の中に台湾が明記されています。国として扱ったわけです。中華民国と言う表記でもありません。
人口の8割を戦後世代が占め、彼らに戦争の責任を負わせることはできないと明言、また和解に努力してくれた国々に感謝して中韓を牽制したのも良くできた内容です。
日経の記事にあるように毒ガスの医療支援について、また左翼弁護士が利権を求めて中国人に焚き付けたのではと思われます。そもそも戦後すぐ武装解除されたので日本に毒ガスの管理責任はありません。親中派の代議士や商社がキックバックを狙って始めたことです。今度は医療問題という事で、関係ない中国人が偽の証明書を持って雲霞の如く現れるでしょう。弁護士を儲けさすだけです。日本の税金が詐取されるという事です。日本国民はもっと怒って良い。
『４つのキーワード、英語版でも「踏襲」 70年談話』記事
政府が公表した戦後70年談話の英語版は、歴史認識に関わる４つのキーワードで過去の村山談話、小泉談話と同じ表現を使った。英語版でも歴史認識について歴代内閣の立場を踏襲する姿勢を鮮明にし、国際社会に訴えた形だ。
キーワードの「植民地支配」「侵略」「痛切な反省」「心からのおわび」は英語版で、それぞれ「colonial rule」「aggression」「deep remorse」「heartfelt apology」と表現された。いずれも村山談話、小泉談話での英語訳と同じだ。
今回の談話では新たに先の大戦への「深い悔悟」を盛り込んだ。これは英語訳で「deep repentance」と訳した。立命館大の東照二教授（政治言語学）によると、「repentance」は宗教的な意味合いが強く、ざんげで悔い改めるといった場面などで使われる。
首相が掲げる「積極的平和主義」は「”Proactive Contribution to Peace”」と英訳した。引用符を用い、構成する３つの主要な単語を大文字から書き始めることで、安倍政権がスローガンとして掲げる言葉だとの位置づけを明確にした形だ。
『「おわび当然」中国が声明 70年談話の論評避ける』記事
【北京＝永井央紀、ソウル＝峯岸博】中国外務省の華春瑩副報道局長は14日、安倍晋三首相の戦後70年談話に関して「日本は侵略戦争の性質と戦争責任について明確に説明し、被害国人民に真摯におわびし、軍国主義の歴史と決別すべきだ。重要な問題をごまかすべきでない」との声明を発表した。談話の具体的な表現への論評は避けた。張業遂外務次官は同日、木寺昌人駐中国大使を呼んで同じ趣旨を伝えた。
韓国の尹炳世（ユン・ビョンセ）外相は同日夜の岸田文雄外相との電話で「日本の誠意ある行動が何よりも重要だ」と強調した。談話内容を綿密に検討し、韓国政府の立場を近く明らかにすることも伝えた。
『毒ガス被害者支援へ基金設立 旧日本軍、中国で遺棄 』記事
旧日本軍が中国に遺棄した毒ガス兵器による被害者らの医療支援などを継続的に行う初の民間基金が14日設立され、日本での損害賠償訴訟に取り組んできた弁護士グループ「遺棄毒ガス被害事件弁護団連絡会議」と中国の民間団体「中国人権発展基金会」の代表が東京都内で合意文書に調印した。
調印した人権発展基金会の慈愛民秘書長は「戦後70年を経ても被害は終わらない。若い人たちに新たな被害者も出ている」と現状を訴え、基金設立の意義を強調した。
新基金は「化学兵器および細菌兵器被害者支援 日中未来平和基金」。日本側を代表して調印した弁護士連絡会議の南典男弁護士は「日中共同で被害者検診を支援する活動をしてきたが、治療支援を進めるため基金設立となった」と語った。〔共同〕
（朝日新聞デジタルより英語版）
On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, we must calmly reflect upon the road to war, the path we have taken since it ended, and the era of the 20th century. We must learn from the lessons of history the wisdom for our future.
More than one hundred years ago, vast colonies possessed mainly by the Western powers stretched out across the world. With their overwhelming supremacy in technology, waves of colonial rule surged toward Asia in the 19th century. There is no doubt that the resultant sense of crisis drove Japan forward to achieve modernization. Japan built a constitutional government earlier than any other nation in Asia. The country preserved its independence throughout. The Japan-Russia War gave encouragement to many people under colonial rule from Asia to Africa.
After World War I, which embroiled the world, the movement for self-determination gained momentum and put brakes on colonization that had been underway. It was a horrible war that claimed as many as ten million lives. With a strong desire for peace stirred in them, people founded the League of Nations and brought forth the General Treaty for Renunciation of War. There emerged in the international community a new tide of outlawing war itself.
At the beginning, Japan, too, kept steps with other nations. However, with the Great Depression setting in and the Western countries launching economic blocs by involving colonial economies, Japan’s economy suffered a major blow. In such circumstances, Japan’s sense of isolation deepened and it attempted to overcome its diplomatic and economic deadlock through the use of force. Its domestic political system could not serve as a brake to stop such attempts. In this way, Japan lost sight of the overall trends in the world.
With the Manchurian Incident, followed by the withdrawal from the League of Nations, Japan gradually transformed itself into a challenger to the new international order that the international community sought to establish after tremendous sacrifices. Japan took the wrong course and advanced along the road to war.
And, seventy years ago, Japan was defeated.
On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, I bow my head deeply before the souls of all those who perished both at home and abroad. I express my feelings of profound grief and my eternal, sincere condolences.
More than three million of our compatriots lost their lives during the war: on the battlefields worrying about the future of their homeland and wishing for the happiness of their families; in remote foreign countries after the war, in extreme cold or heat, suffering from starvation and disease. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the air raids on Tokyo and other cities, and the ground battles in Okinawa, among others, took a heavy toll among ordinary citizens without mercy.
Also in countries that fought against Japan, countless lives were lost among young people with promising futures. In China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands and elsewhere that became the battlefields, numerous innocent citizens suffered and fell victim to battles as well as hardships such as severe deprivation of food. We must never forget that there were women behind the battlefields whose honour and dignity were severely injured.
Upon the innocent people did our country inflict immeasurable damage and suffering. History is harsh. What is done cannot be undone. Each and every one of them had his or her life, dream, and beloved family. When I squarely contemplate this obvious fact, even now, I find myself speechless and my heart is rent with the utmost grief.
The peace we enjoy today exists only upon such precious sacrifices. And therein lies the origin of postwar Japan.
We must never again repeat the devastation of war.
Incident, aggression, war — we shall never again resort to any form of the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. We shall abandon colonial rule forever and respect the right of self-determination of all peoples throughout the world.
With deep repentance for the war, Japan made that pledge. Upon it, we have created a free and democratic country, abided by the rule of law, and consistently upheld that pledge never to wage a war again. While taking silent pride in the path we have walked as a peace-loving nation for as long as seventy years, we remain determined never to deviate from this steadfast course.
Japan has repeatedly expressed the feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war. In order to manifest such feelings through concrete actions, we have engraved in our hearts the histories of suffering of the people in Asia as our neighbours: those in Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, and Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and China, among others; and we have consistently devoted ourselves to the peace and prosperity of the region since the end of the war.
Such position articulated by the previous cabinets will remain unshakable into the future.
However, no matter what kind of efforts we may make, the sorrows of those who lost their family members and the painful memories of those who underwent immense sufferings by the destruction of war will never be healed.
Thus, we must take to heart the following.
The fact that more than six million Japanese repatriates managed to come home safely after the war from various parts of the Asia-Pacific and became the driving force behind Japan’s postwar reconstruction; the fact that nearly three thousand Japanese children left behind in China were able to grow up there and set foot on the soil of their homeland again; and the fact that former POWs of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and other nations have visited Japan for many years to continue praying for the souls of the war dead on both sides.
How much emotional struggle must have existed and what great efforts must have been necessary for the Chinese people who underwent all the sufferings of the war and for the former POWs who experienced unbearable sufferings caused by the Japanese military in order for them to be so tolerant nevertheless?
That is what we must turn our thoughts to reflect upon.
Thanks to such manifestation of tolerance, Japan was able to return to the international community in the postwar era. Taking this opportunity of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, Japan would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to all the nations and all the people who made every effort for reconciliation.
In Japan, the postwar generations now exceed eighty per cent of its population. We must not let our children, grandchildren, and even further generations to come, who have nothing to do with that war, be predestined to apologize. Still, even so, we Japanese, across generations, must squarely face the history of the past. We have the responsibility to inherit the past, in all humbleness, and pass it on to the future.
Our parents’ and grandparents’ generations were able to survive in a devastated land in sheer poverty after the war. The future they brought about is the one our current generation inherited and the one we will hand down to the next generation. Together with the tireless efforts of our predecessors, this has only been possible through the goodwill and assistance extended to us that transcended hatred by a truly large number of countries, such as the United States, Australia, and European nations, which Japan had fiercely fought against as enemies.
We must pass this down from generation to generation into the future. We have the great responsibility to take the lessons of history deeply into our hearts, to carve out a better future, and to make all possible efforts for the peace and prosperity of Asia and the world.
We will engrave in our hearts the past, when Japan attempted to break its deadlock with force. Upon this reflection, Japan will continue to firmly uphold the principle that any disputes must be settled peacefully and diplomatically based on the respect for the rule of law and not through the use of force, and to reach out to other countries in the world to do the same.
As the only country to have ever suffered the devastation of atomic bombings during war, Japan will fulfil its responsibility in the international community, aiming at the non-proliferation and ultimate abolition of nuclear weapons.
We will engrave in our hearts the past, when the dignity and honour of many women were severely injured during wars in the 20th century. Upon this reflection, Japan wishes to be a country always at the side of such women’s injured hearts. Japan will lead the world in making the 21st century an era in which women’s human rights are not infringed upon.
We will engrave in our hearts the past, when forming economic blocs made the seeds of conflict thrive. Upon this reflection, Japan will continue to develop a free, fair and open international economic system that will not be influenced by the arbitrary intentions of any nation. We will strengthen assistance for developing countries, and lead the world toward further prosperity. Prosperity is the very foundation for peace. Japan will make even greater efforts to fight against poverty, which also serves as a hotbed of violence, and to provide opportunities for medical services, education, and self-reliance to all the people in the world.
We will engrave in our hearts the past, when Japan ended up becoming a challenger to the international order. Upon this reflection, Japan will firmly uphold basic values such as freedom, democracy, and human rights as unyielding values and, by working hand in hand with countries that share such values, hoist the flag of “Proactive Contribution to Peace,” and contribute to the peace and prosperity of the world more than ever before.
Heading toward the 80th, the 90th and the centennial anniversary of the end of the war, we are determined to create such a Japan together with the Japanese people.
August 14, 2015
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan
注・英訳は日本政府の発表による
