12月25日付けで発表した「真珠湾訪問にあたっての安倍首相への公開質問状」、以下、英語版、日本語版、署名者53名のリストです。拡散、転載歓迎です。
53 international scholars, artists, and activists sent an Open Letter to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the eve of his upcoming visit to Pearl Harbor. See below English and Japanese versions, followed by the list of signers. All are welcome to share and re-post this letter.
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USS Arizona Memorial, which Mr. Abe plans to visit. |
An Open Letter to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
On the Occasion of Your Visit to Pearl Harbor
December 25, 2016
Dear Mr. Abe,
You recently announced plans to visit Pearl Harbor in Hawai’i at the end of December 2016 to “mourn the victims” of the Japanese Navy’s attack on the U.S. naval base on December 8, 1941 (Tokyo Time).
In fact, Pearl Harbor was not the only place Japan attacked that day. The Japanese Army had attacked the northeastern shore of the Malay Peninsula one hour earlier and would go on to attack several other British and U.S. colonies and bases in the Asia-Pacific region later that day. Japan launched these attacks in order to secure the oil and other resources of Southeast Asia essential to extend its war of aggression against China.
Since this will be your first official visit to the place where Japan’s war against the United States began, we would like to raise the following questions concerning your previous statements about the war.
1) You were Deputy Executive Director of the “Diet Members’ League for the 50th Anniversary of the End of War,” which was established at the end of 1994 in order to counter parliamentary efforts to pass a resolution to critically reflect upon Japan’s aggressive war. Its Founding Statement asserts that Japan’s more than two million war-dead gave their lives for “Japan’s self-existence and self-defense, and peace of Asia.” The League’s Campaign Policy statement of April 13, 1995 rejected offering any apology or issuing the no-war pledge included in the parliamentary resolution to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of war. The League’s public statement of June 8, 1995 declared that the majority parties’ resolution draft was unacceptable because it admitted Japan’s “behaviors of aggression” and “colonial rule.” Mr. Abe, do you still hold such views about the war?
2) In the Diet questioning period of April 23, 2013, you as Prime Minister stated that "the definition of what constitutes 'aggression' has yet to be established in academia or in the international community." Does that mean that you do not recognize Japan’s war against the Allied and Asia-Pacific nations and the preceding war against China as wars of aggression?
3) You state that you are going to visit Pearl Harbor to “mourn” the 2,400 Americans who perished in the attack. If that is the case, will you also be visiting China, Korea, other Asia-Pacific nations, or the other Allied nations for the purpose of “mourning” war victims in those countries who number in the tens of millions?
As Prime Minister, you have pressed for Constitutional revision including reinterpretation and revision of Article 9 to allow Japanese Self-Defense Forces to fight anywhere in the world. We ask that you reflect on the signal this sends to nations that suffered at Japan’s hands in the Asia-Pacific War.
(The list of signers follows the Japanese version.)
1.
Ikuro Anzai, Professor Emeritus,
Ritsumeikan University 安斎育郎、立命館大学名誉教授
2.
Herbert P. Bix, emeritus
professor of history and sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY ハーバート・P・ビックス、ニューヨーク州立大学ビンガムトン校歴史学・社会学名誉教授
3.
Peter van den Dungen,
Formerly, Lecturer in Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK, and general
coordinator of the International Network of Museums for Peace ピーター・バン・デン・デュンゲン、元ブラッドフォード大学(英国)平和学教員、世界平和博物館ネットワーク総括コーディネーター
4.
Alexis Dudden, Professor of
History, University of Connecticut アレクシス・ダディン、コネチカット大学歴史学教授
5.
Richard Falk, Albert G.
Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University リチャード・フォーク、プリンストン大学国際法名誉教授
6.
John Feffer, Director,
Foreign Policy In Focus, ジョン・フェッファー、「フォーリン・ポリシー・イン・フォーカス」ディレクター
7.
Norma Field, Professor
emerita, University of Chicago ノーマ・フィールド、シカゴ大学名誉教授
8.
Kay Fischer, Instructor,
Ethnic Studies, Chabot Collegeケイ・フィッシャー、シャボット・カレッジ(カリフォルニア州)講師
9.
Atsushi Fujioka, Emeritus
Professor, Ritsumeikan University 藤岡惇、立命館大学名誉教授
10.
Joseph Gerson (PhD),
Vice-President, International Peace Bureau ジョセフ・ガーソン、国際平和ビューロー副会長
11.
Geoffrey C. Gunn, Emeritus,
Nagasaki University ジェフリー・C・ガン、長崎大学名誉教授
12.
Kyung Hee Ha, Assistant Professor,
Meiji University 河庚希、明治大学特任講師
13.
Laura Hein, Professor,
Northwestern University ローラ・ハイン、ノースウェスタン大学教授(米国シカゴ)
14.
Hirofumi Hayashi, Professor,
Kanto Gakuin University 林博史、関東学院大学教授
15. Katsuya Hirano, Associate Professor of History, UCLA平野克弥、カリフォルニア大学ロスアンゼルス校准教授
16. IKEDA Eriko,
Chair of the Board, Women's Active Museum on War
and Peace(wam) 池田恵理子 アクティブ・ミュージアム「女たちの戦争と平和資料館」(wam)館長
17. Masaie
Ishihara, Professor Emeritus Okinawa International University 石原昌家、沖縄国際大学名誉教授
18.
Paul Jobin, Associate
Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Sociology
ポール・ジョバン 台湾国立中央研究院社会学研究所 アソシエート・リサーチ・フェロー
19.
John Junkerman, Documentary
Filmmaker ジャン・ユンカーマン、ドキュメンタリー映画監督
20.
Nan Kim, Associate
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ナン・キム(金永蘭)、ウィスコンシン大学ミルウォーキー校准教授
21.
KIM Puja, Professor of
Gender History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies金 富子、ジェンダー史、東京外国語大学教授
22.
Akira Kimura, Professor,
Kagoshima University 木村朗、鹿児島大学教授
23.
Tomomi Kinukawa, Instructor,
San Francisco State University絹川知美、サンフランシスコ州立大学講師
24.
Peter Kuznick, Professor of
History, American University ピーター・カズニック、アメリカン大学歴史学教授
25.
Kwon, Heok-Tae, Professor,
Sungkonghoe University, Korea 権赫泰(クォン・ヒョクテ)、韓国・聖公会大学教授
26.
Lee Kyeong-Ju, Professor,
Inha University (Korea) 李京柱、仁荷大学教授
27.
Miho Kim Lee, Co-founder of
Eclipse Rising ミホ・キム・リー、「エクリプス・ライジング」共同創立者
28.
Lim Jie-Hyun, Professor of
transnational history, director of Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang
University 林志弦(イム・ジヒョン)、西江大学教授(韓国)
29.
Akira Maeda, Professor,
Tokyo Zokei University 前田 朗、東京造形大学教授
30.
Janice Matsumura, Associate
Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada ジャニス・マツムラ、サイモンフレイザー大学(カナダ)歴史学准教授
31.
Tanya Maus, PhD, Director,
Wilmington College Peace Resource Center, Wilmington, Ohio タニア・マウス、ウィルミントン大学(オハイオ州)平和資料センターディレクター
32.
David McNeill, Adjunct
Professor, Sophia University デイビッド・マクニール、上智大学非常勤講師
33.
Gavan McCormack, Emeritus
Professor, Australian National University ガバン・マコーマック、オーストラリア国立大学名誉教授
34.
Katherine Muzik, Ph.D.,
marine biologist, Kauai Island キャサリン・ミュージック、海洋生物学者(ハワイ・カウアイ島)
35.
Koichi Nakano, Professor,
Sophia University 中野晃一、上智大学教授
36.
NAKANO Toshio, Professor
Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies中野敏男、社会理論・社会思想、東京外国語大学名誉教授
37.
Narusawa Muneo, Editor, Weekly Kinyobi, 成澤宗男、『週刊金曜日』編集部
38.
Satoko Oka Norimatsu,
Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
乗松聡子、『アジア太平洋ジャーナル:ジャパンフォーカス』エディター
39.
John Price, Professor of
History, University of Victoria, Canada ジョン・プライス、ビクトリア大学(カナダ)歴史学教授
40.
Steve Rabson, Professor
Emeritus, Brown University (U.S.A.) Veteran, United States Armyスティーブ・ラブソン、ブラウン大学(米国)名誉教授 米国陸軍退役軍人
41.
Sonia Ryang, Director, Chao
Center for Asian Studies, Rice University ソニア・リャン、ライス大学(テキサス州)チャオ・アジア研究センターディレクター
42.
Daiyo Sawada, Emeritus
Professor, University of Alberta ダイヨウ・サワダ、アルバータ大学名誉教授
43.
Mark Selden, Senior Research
Associate, East Asia Program, Cornell University マーク・セルダン、コーネル大学東アジア研究プログラム上級研究員
44.
Oliver Stone, Academy Award-Winning
Filmmaker オリバー・ストーン、アカデミー賞受賞映画監督
45.
Tetsuya Takahashi, Professor,
University of Tokyo 高橋哲哉、東京大学教授
46.
Nobuyoshi Takashima,
Professor Emeritus, the University of Ryukyus 高嶋伸欣、琉球大学名誉教授
47.
Akiko Takenaka, Associate
Professor of Japanese History, University of Kentucky竹中晶子、ケンタッキー大学准教授
48.
Wesley Ueunten, Associate
Professor, Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University ウェスリー・ウエウンテン、サンフランシスコ州立大学アジア・アメリカ研究学部准教授
49.
Aiko Utsumi, Professor
Emeritus, Keisen University内海愛子、恵泉女学園大学名誉教授
50.
Shue Tuck Wong, Professor
Emeritus, Simon Fraser University シュエ・タク・ウォング、サイモンフレーザー大学(カナダ)名誉教授
51.
Yi Wu, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Clemson University イー・ウー、クレムゾン大学社会学・人類学部助教授
52.
Tomomi Yamaguchi, Associate
Professor of Anthropology, Montana State University 山口智美、モンタナ州立大学人類学准教授
53.
Lisa Yoneyama, Professor,
University of Toronto リサ・ヨネヤマ、トロント大学教授
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Signatures that arrived after we released the letter
発表後に署名が届いた方たちをここに記します(到着順)
Jenny Chan 陳慧玲, Assistant
Professor of Sociology and China Studies, Department of
Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Matthew Penny, Associate Professor, Concordia University (Canada)
マシュー・ペニー、コンコーディア大学(カナダ)准教授
Aisa Kiyosue, Associate Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology (Hokkaido, Japan)
清末愛砂、室蘭工業大学大学院工学研究科准教授
Tetsumi Takara, Professor, the University of Ryukyus
高良鉄美、琉球大学教授
Dave Webb, Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Leeds Met University, UK, Chair, CND
デイブ・ウェブ、リーズ・メトロポリタン大学平和・紛争学名誉教授
Taketo SHIMIZU, Professor of Peace Studies, J. F. Oberlin University
清水竹人、桜美林大学教授
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor, Australian National University
テッサ・モリス―スズキ、オーストラリア国立大学教授