加瀬英明著・KKベストセラーズ社刊
第五章 白人による人種差別からの解放
今回は、第五章です。
アメリカにおける日本人蔑視と差別はひどいものでした。１９２４年に、アメリカ上下院が排日移民法を立法しました。新渡戸稲造は、『武士道』の著者であり、クラーク博士に札幌農学校で学んだうえ、青年期にアメリカに留学して、１９２０年から国際連盟事務次長をつとめましたが、排日移民法に強い衝撃を受けて、「私は二度とアメリカの地を踏まない」と宣言したほどでした。
東京裁判の判事の一人、オランダのレーリング博士は『東京裁判とその後』という著書で「人種差別が、太平洋戦争の主因の一つだった。連合国の国民は、日本人を人間以下とみなすように教育されていた。広島、長崎で数十万人を、一瞬のうちに殺傷したのも、人間ではないと感じたから、できたのだ。」と書いています。さらに「日本は先の戦争を、アジアをアジア人の手に取り戻すために戦った」と述べ戦争に至った経緯を詳しく説明しています。
明治大帝のご葬儀に弔問の使節を派遣したのは十数カ国、大正天皇の大喪の礼に弔問使を送ったのは三十数ヶ国でしたが、昭和天皇の大喪の礼には、百六四ヶ国の元首や、代表が全世界から弔問に訪れました。百ヶ国以上にのぼる国々の大部分は日本が大東亜戦争を戦ったからだったのでした。
日本文は、http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/Greater55.pdf
英文は、http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater5.pdf
英文は、下記の通り、英文Newsletter で海外に発信しました。
「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道
The Greater East Asian War: How Japan Changed The World
By Kase Hideaki
(Published by KK Bestseller in Japanese, 2015)
Chapter 5 – Freedom From Racial Discrimination
This link is to Chapter 5.
In the United States, Japanese people were the object of contempt and subjected to atrocious discrimination. In 1924, the United States Congress passed the Asian Exclusion Act.
Nitobe Inazo, the famous author of “Bushido: The Soul of Japan,” took classes at Sapporo Agricultural College, taught at the time by American agricultural scientist William Clark, and later, as a young man, studied in the United States. From 1920, he worked as Undersecretary-General for the League of Nations. Nonetheless, so devastated was he by the mounting American anti-Japanese movement, that he declared, “I shall never again set foot in the United States.”
Bert V.A. Roling of the Netherlands, one of the judges of the Tokyo Trial, published a memoir entitled “The Tokyo Trial and Beyond”. He wrote:
Racial discrimination may have been one of the roots of the Pacific War… [The Americans] were more or less indoctrinated to look on the Japanese as a sub-human race. The bombing of the Japanese cities, followed by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was made possible by precisely that feeling that it was not human beings they were cremating by the hundreds of thousands.
Roling also described in detail the circumstances leading up to the war, explaining that Japan’s war aim was to create an “Asia for the Asians”.
Less than twenty countries sent delegates to attend the funeral of Emperor Meiji in 1912. Emperor Taisho’s funeral in 1927 was attended by delegates from less than forty countries. However, the representatives and heads of state of 164 countries, from all over the world, expressed their condolences to Emperor Showa in 1989.
The fact that the world then contained 164 independent nations was made possible only through the sacrifices made by all of Japan during World War II. The peoples of Asia and Africa had been liberated and all become independent.
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/655/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater4.pdf
Author profile: http://www.sdh-fact.com/auther/kase-hideaki/
*For your reference; Chapter 1. Up to the Day Japan Surrendered
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/The-Greater1.pdf
Chapter 2. The Trap Laid by the United States
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater2.pdf
Chapter 3. The Greater East Asia Conference and the Dream of Racial Equality
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater3.pdf
Chapter 4. The Noble Spirit Which Inspired the People of Asia
http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater4.pdf
Questions are welcome.
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact
Phone: +81-3-3519-4366
Fax: +81-3-3519-4367
Email moteki@sdh-fact.com
URL http://www.sdh-fact.com
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