Japantimes 2013/10/20
Japantimes 2013/10/21
私はOKだとは思いません。実際は彼こそがあのヘイトスピーチの先頭に立っている人物です。日本の恥ずかしさの象徴だと思います。前にも書きましたが、自民党議員の大半は世襲議員であり、その祖父達は戦争を煽った人間達です。その子孫が靖国を参拝するのは自分の祖先が犯した罪を自己肯定するためです。人間は弱い動物だから自己肯定をしないと自らを存在させられないのです。一度暴力や犯罪を犯した人間はそれを肯定するために、あるいは人からの暴力を恐れてやられる前に、と何度も暴力を繰り返します。彼らの靖国崇拝はその一つの例です。それから最近では安倍総理は統一教会の機関紙の表紙を華々しく飾っていたそうです。ヘイトスピーチの団体を含め、なんとなく関係が見えてきます。
本当は英文の解説をしたいのですが、どうも最近時間が足りていません。
Abe weighing big picture on Yasukuni trip
KYODO OCT 21, 2013Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will decide “from a broad perspective” whether to visit war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by the end of the year, the government’s top spokesman said Monday.
“The prime minister himself will decide from a broad perspective. That says it all,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference without elaborating. A day earlier, an aide in Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party hinted he would pay a visit by the end of December.
“The prime minister has said it was regrettable that he could not visit the shrine during his first term in office (between 2006 and 2007),” Suga said.
On Sunday, Koichi Hagiuda, a member of the Lower House serving as a special aide to Abe, the LDP’s chief, said he thinks Abe will visit the Shinto facility by the first anniversary of his Cabinet’s launch in December.
“Some people say he should visit the shrine sometime while he is prime minister, but a visit to the shrine should be made at least once a year,” he said.
The shrine served as the spiritual backbone of Japan’s war effort. It honors Class-A war criminals along with Japan’s war dead. Visits by prime ministers and Cabinet members frequently anger China and South Korea, which both tasted Japan’s aggression during the war.
For Yasukuni’s annual autumn festival, Abe refrained from visiting and instead sent a “masakaki” tree offering to avoid worsening strained ties with China and South Korea and take heed of his conservative support base.
But two of his Cabinet ministers paid a visit.
