日中外交問題で「ヴォルデモート卿」[註]暗躍？駐英大使が中傷合戦
フランス通信社（AFP: L’Agence France-Presse）日本語版
2014年01月06日(月)17:32
発信地: ロンドン/英国
http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3006054
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140106-00000040-jij_afp-int （リンク切れ）
【1月6日 AFP】 英国の新聞紙上で、日中の駐英大使が互いの国を、英人気児童小説「ハリー・ポッター（Harry Potter）」シリーズに登場する悪役の魔法使い「ヴォルデモート卿（Lord Voldemort）」[註]呼ばわりする中傷合戦が生じている。
林景一（Keiichi Hayashi）駐英日本大使は、6日付の英紙デーリー・テレグラフ（Daily Telegraph）に掲載された日中外交論争をめぐる意見記事で、中国政府をヴォルデモート卿にたとえ、次のように述べた。
「東アジアは岐路にあり、中国の前には2つの道が開けている。1つは対話を求め、法の支配に従う道だ。もう1つは、日本側からは状況を悪化させないにもかかわらず、中国がこの地域においてヴォルデモート卿の役を演じ、軍拡競争と緊張激化という悪を解き放つ道だ」
「答えは明確に思える。これまで中国は、わが国の指導者たちとの対話を可能にすることを拒んできた。しかしわたしは、中国がもはや存在しない70年前の『軍国主義』の亡霊を呼び出し続けるのをやめ、前に進み出ることを心から望んでいる」
林大使のテレグラフ紙への寄稿は、1日の同紙に掲載された劉暁明（Liu Xiaoming）駐英中国大使の論説に反論したものとみられる。劉大使も日本を「ヴォルデモート卿」になぞらえていた。
（改行・後略）
註: 見出しや文中に在るヴォルデモート卿（Lord Voldemort）のヴォルデモートとは、フランス語の vol de mort （ヴォル・ドゥモーふ）に由来し、「死の飛行」（英訳 flight of death or death flight）、または「死の窃盗」（英訳 theft of death）、または「死の強盗行為」（英訳 robbery of death）を意味する。原著者のロウリング（J. K. Rowling, b.1965: 日本では誤って「ローリング」）女史は元来のフランス語同様に語尾の t を黙字（もくじ: a silent letter）にしたつもりだったが、2001年に映画が公開されて以来、出演者らによって t が発音されるようになったという。
【参考記事】
ハリポタ悪役「ヴォルデモート」の発音は間違いだった
米CNN日本語版
2015年9月11日(金) 13:14 JST / 4:14 GMT
https://www.cnn.co.jp/showbiz/35070407.html
（詳細は記事本文へ）
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app*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 19:58）
くだらないようだけど重要なことだよ。
ヨーロッパは日中関係の細かいことを知らない。特に一般大衆はぼんやりとしか知らない。プロパガンダで中国のネガキャンが定着したら困る。南京事件や慰安婦の話は、日本が中韓のプロパガンダを放置していたせいで、事実として世界に定着してしまい、その払拭にすさまじい苦労をしてるじゃんか。
たとえ、低レベルの争いのように見えたとしても、日本がはっきりと、わかりやすい形で自分たちの主張を発信しておくのは重要なこと。
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kwe*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:20）
情報戦って大事ですね。日本政府の予算を増やして海外に広報していかないとダメですね。私たち国民も政府に働きかければこの山も動くんでしょうね。これだけ集まるヤフコメ住人が力を合わせると何かできるかもしれませんね。
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tsu*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:21）
同感。日本人は、反論を恥ずかしいことととらえているので、黙することを選んできましたが、これからは、草の根からひとつひとつ真実をアピールしていかなければならないと思います。決して低レベルの争いではないのです。
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tak*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:40）
同感！３回反論しないと、相手の言い分を認めることになるのが、国際常識。
今までの日本は一見「大人の対応」と高をくくって反論しない例が多かったが、国際社会はもっと底の浅いレベルなので、日本のような高度な理解はしない。従って、どんどん反論することが重要です。
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m4a*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:44）
中国側からこういう比喩が始まったみたいですが、むしろそういう安易というか低俗な比喩って見ててどうなんでしょう？賛同すると思いますか？同じ方法を 取って日本がそういうレベルと見られて満足なんでしょうか？とりあえず声を上げなければと思うのは結構ですが、何の薬にもならないどころか逆効果でしょ う。今回はそのケースだと思います。
参考までに、「パレスチナはユダヤ人にとって正当な領有権がある地であり、パレスチナ人こそ侵略者、簒奪者だ」なんて言説が日本の新聞に載ったとして、それを素直に信じますか？むしろ彼らの狂気を感じてしまう人の方が多いんじゃないかと私は思うんですが。
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bloommer
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:46）
こんなところに何百もコメントしてる暇な君がやればいい（笑）
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the*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:49）
日本の英語教育は、相手が何を言っているか理解しようとする面が強いが、中国・韓国は自分達の歴史がいかに素晴らしいか、自分達がいかに優れているかを自慢する英語を叩き込む。そこに事実はありません。
日本も、呼吸をするように嘘を吐く民族を真似しろとは言わないが、自分達の文化歴史の優れた面を説明し、冤罪を晴らす英語教育をすべきでしょう。
日本語は文体が特殊ですので、小学生低学年では英語の文体に置き換えるのは無理だと思います。
英語を押し付ける前に、日本の正しい歴史を教えるのが先だと思います。ＧＨＱの洗脳が解けてない世代や、教育界に大量に入り込んでいる反日分子の妨害があるでしょうが、逆にそれが事実を教える教材になるのでは。
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tko*****
51分前（2014/01/06 21:05）
同レベルの反論ではちょっとね。。。
より冷静で、インパクトのある例えをして欲しかった。
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tre*****
|46分前（2014/01/06 21:11）
今までマスコミは中韓に対し「大人の対応」や「冷静な対応」を日本政府や国民に押し付け、その結果、中韓はここまで増長し、日本を貶める捏造歴史を世界に流布し、それを定着させようとしている。
これからは言うべきことを主張し、それに従わない中韓に対しては容赦なく制裁を加えていくべきである。
いつまでも大人しくしていているだけでは問題解決を先送りするどころか悪化させる一方でしかないということを過去の経験から学習すべきだ。
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礼儀正しく拡げよう反中・反韓の輪！(笑)
43分前（2014/01/06 21:14） 違反報告 いいね
>日本がはっきりと、わかりやすい形で自分たちの主張を発信しておくのは重要なこと。
これ↑同意。
しかし、低レベルの人間に同じレベルで言い争うのは、みっともない。
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san*****
36分前（2014/01/06 21:21）
仰る通りだと思う。低レベルの人間に同レベルで争うのはみっともないという意見もある。日本国内ではそれでいいだろう。
やはり欧米ではレベルは置いといて主張し続けることが大切なんだ。職業売春婦がいわゆる従軍慰安婦にすり替わったのも中韓のしつこい嘘に主張しなかったからだよ。
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foo*****
25分前（2014/01/06 21:31）
内政干渉だし、中韓はサンフランシスコ条約に批准していない。
条約に署名、批准していない国々は戦犯について発言する権利はなく、日本の立場を損ねたり害したりする行動に出る資格はない、とある （ 第２５条 ）。
条約読めよ、バカ中国人。
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王城恋太
23分前（2014/01/06 21:34
これまでの日本は言われっぱなしでしたからね。
反論すべきところは反論しないといけません。
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cal*****
22分前（2014/01/06 21:34）
喩はともかく世界に日本の主張と考えを発信し続け、理解してもらえるように誠意を込めて継続していかないといけませんね。そして理不尽な日本バッシングに は毅然とした態度で反論していかなければなりません。繰り返しになりますがとにかく日本の主張を理解してもらわないとね。
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hom*****
22分前（2014/01/06 21:35）
中国韓国もいちゃもん好きやなって冷めた目で見てるけど。
靖国に意固地に行こうとする自民党や行くことを喜ぶ一部の日本人も疑問。
そんなに靖国行くことって日本にとって重要か？
どうでもいいわ。領土守ったり経済や社会保障活性化してほしいけど靖国行って、日本人に何のメリットがあるのかよくわからない。説明してくれ。
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taichicult
19分前（2014/01/06 21:37）
＞ヨーロッパは日中関係の細かいことを知らない。
、
、
wikipediaで簡単によめまつよ？
（ ＾∀＾）ｹﾞﾗｹﾞﾗ
Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nanking Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
まん○に棒つきたててる写真もありまつね？
（ ＾∀＾）ｹﾞﾗｹﾞﾗ
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fly*****
18分前（2014/01/06 21:38）
在米韓国人は選挙区の連邦・地方議員に対してかなり積極的に慰安婦問題や東海呼称運動等反日ロビー活動を行っている様である。日本側も冷静かつ的確な反撃を行うべき。
特に議員ロビー活動に対しては、以前の自民党国会議員や評論家の入国拒否事件は強力な武器だと思う。
「韓国は自国にとって目障りな人間は国会議員でも法的根拠無く排除する国だ。自由と人権を重視する米国の議員としてこの事をどう思う？またその様な国が一方的に主張する事を検証も無く受け入れるのか？」と韓国寄りの議員へ聞いてみたい。
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hom*****
17分前（2014/01/06 21:40）
だからさ、何のメリットが日本人にあるのかが明確に説明できるやつがいないからアジア以外の外人も日本人残念だなってなるんだろ説明しろよ。靖国参拝賛成のやつは。
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uta*****
10分前（2014/01/06 21:46）
同感。下品な中国の罵りと同レベルで応ずるのは避けるべきだが、反論は挙げるべきです。沈黙は良く無い。但し、第三国にウンザリされない様なサジ加減が重 要。誹謗中傷は勿論NG。尤も、下衆な誹謗中傷で揶揄しているのは中国の方で、日本の反論はそう言った類の物には普通読めませんが。他人様の墓を、亡者の 箱に例えるとか、酷過ぎる。
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*********
8分前（2014/01/06 21:48）
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王城恋太
7分前（2014/01/06 21:49）
＞まん○に棒つきたててる写真もありまつね？
おまえらチョンがやった事だろうが
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キーホール１３ケーキ
| 6分前（2014/01/06 21:51）
＞タイチ
顔が変形するまでお前を殴りつけてやる！
素手でじゃないぜ、ひのきのぼうでも使ってやるよ（笑）
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tam*****
3分前（2014/01/06 21:54）
反論は必要だと思うが、靖国のホームページをみれば軍国主義と取られてもしかたがない。国の為に命を落とした英霊に対して、やっぱり戦争は間違っていまし た。あなた方は不幸な犠牲者ですというのは難しいとは思う。でも、適切な表現をしていかないと、、、あのホームページではだめだ。
中国・韓国とは国交断絶
4時間前（2014/01/06 17:48）
各国日本大使は、駐英大使のような発言を、マスコミに発表すべき！
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ys3*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:37）
日本人は黙っていることを美徳と感じている人が多いが、海外では通じないと思う！！！
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din*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:39）
あれ？ヴォルデモートに例えた発言の記事は数日前にも見た気がするんだが。この記事では今日付になっているし。元々中国が言い出した話じゃなかったっけ？
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din*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:41）
あぁ、やっぱりそうだ。元々、中国側の大使が「日本はヴォルデモートのようだ」と３日前くらいに言ったんじゃないか。それをそっくりそのままお返ししただけの話だろうに。
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tos*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:47）
どっちが先でも関係無い。大人ぶって言い返さないから中韓は増長する。
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aps*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:56）
中国人に言えることは、よくもまぁ恥がいもなくふつうに生きてるなぁってこと。
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ski*****
45分前（2014/01/06 21:11）
安倍外交と安保 日米で対中国戦略を強化せよ（1月6日付・読売新聞社説）
◆靖国の失点を回復せよ
安倍首相の靖国神社参拝が、中国に日本批判の口実を与え、国際連携を弱めたのは否めない。
従来は、防空識別圏の一方的な設定など、中国の独善的な振る舞いが国際社会で問題視されていたが、今後、日本にも情勢悪化の責任があるとの見方が広がりかねない。同盟国の米国による「失望」表明を軽視すべきではない。
安倍首相はまず、米国と緊密に協議し、靖国参拝の真意を説明するとともに、中長期的な対中国戦略を練ることが肝要だ。
韓国、豪州、東南アジアとも連携し、中国に、国際規範を順守し、「責任ある行動」を取るよう粘り強く促さねばならない。
日中関係は一昨年９月の尖閣諸島の国有化以来、首脳会談が開けず、戦後最悪と言われる。この長期化も覚悟する必要がある。
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44分前（2014/01/06 21:12）
日本では馬鹿と同じ土俵に乗るのは恥ずべき行為とされているが、英国や米国では沈黙は追認とみなされる傾向がある。特に英国ではそれが顕著だ。それを計算した上で林大使は寄稿したのだろう。
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礼儀正しく拡げよう反中・反韓の輪！(笑)
44分前（2014/01/06 21:13）
アホか！
中韓人のような低レベルの人間と同じレベルで言い争うのは日本の恥だ。ネトウヨだかなんだか知らんが、自分で自分を貶める行為はみっともないと気づけ！
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yss*****
1分前（2014/01/06 21:56）
言うべきだ。黙っているのは、認めたと、見られる。世界は、事実を知らない、言わないと、理解されない。
sus*****
4時間前（2014/01/06 17:57）
そう、日本政府、在外公館は日本が第二次世界大戦後、７０年間戦争をしていないことをもっと強調すべきである。それこそ、安倍首相の不戦の誓いとリンクした主張である。中韓に言われて弁解しているように報道されているのも、腹立たしい。日本からもっと発信するべき。
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cri*****
10分前（2014/01/06 21:46）
東アジアで日本だけですもんね。大戦後戦争してないの
yia*****
3時間前（2014/01/06 18:42）
温厚な日本の外交官をしてここまで言わしめるか。今年は怒りの年の予感。バカチャイナに売られた喧嘩だし言い値で買っちゃうよってことか。
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必殺 仕置き人*****
4分前（2014/01/06 21:53）
黙っていては 認めた事になる 中国を含む諸外国では『ここで言わないと 自分が、家族が損をしてしまう』。それが当たり前
そうして長年生きてきた人間と ここは一歩引くべきと育った日本人の違いかな・・反論・事実を世界に向けて政府が発信しないと、嘘も百回言えば真実になってしまいますョ。
Kit*ik*i
2時間前（2014/01/06 19:19）
林景一駐英日本大使の反論は極めてよし！ただ、AFPフランス通信社は、英文で
The Shinto shrine is seen by China and “other Asian nations” as a
symbol of Japan's militarist past.
。。。issues, many of which are tied to “bitter memories of violence in
Asia by Japanese soldiers” before and during World War II
とも、伝えている。これは偏見に満ちた記事だ。外務省はAFPにきちん歴史と説明し、誤りを正す事をやっていけ。それが、戦後からの新しい出発になる。一つ一つ今までの怠りをきちんと取り返せ、わかったな！.
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spe*****
44分前（2014/01/06 21:13）
英文を翻訳させてもらいましたが、かなり偏見に充ちた間違った見識です。かなり酷い！
cur*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:23）
『沈黙には金の価値しかないが、雄弁には銀の価値がある』
よく日本では『沈黙は金』と言って、相手に反論せずにいる事がありますが、国際社会ではそれは通用しません。そもそも古代ギリシャでは『沈黙には金の価値 しかないが、雄弁には銀の価値がある』と、言葉の重要性を強調していました。古代ギリシャでは通貨は銀貨だった為、銀の方が金より重要視されていた為にこの格言が生まれました。中国共産党や南北朝鮮の歪んだ政治宣伝に対抗する為には、日本国政府や外務省は勿論。日本国民の一人一人が、雄弁を武器として国際 社会に情報発信を行う必要があります。
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goo*****
4時間前（2014/01/06 17:47）
中国のくだらないコメントに付き合うなよ。
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pyo*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:21）
いや言うことは言っていくべき！ヨーロッパからしてみれば、
日中のどちらが悪いかなんて興味のない話。そんな中、中国の主張ばかりが報道されれば確実に基本認識として浸透していってしまう。それほどメディアの力は大きい。
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yam*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:27）
沈黙が美徳なのは日本だけ。
国際社会では声が大きい方が正義になり反論をしないと認めたことになる。
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mi_*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:30）
韓国を見ても分かるが、大人しくしていたら事実だと思われ反論しなかったら納得している物だと認識されてしまう。反論をしなかったら不味いだろ。
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ys3*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:37）
日本人は黙っていることを美徳と感じている人が多いが、海外では通じないと思う！！！
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pon*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:42）
そうやってお前らの大好きな「大人の対応」をしてきた結果、声のでかい中韓の主張が国際社会のスタンダードになったんですけど。靖国も慰安婦も。
家に放火されても文句を言わず大人の対応で燃え続ける我が家を黙って見続けて喜ぶような狂った変人はお前らのような日本人の一部だけ。
この期に及んでもその対応方法は得になるどころが国益を害してるだけだと学習できないなんて、人間として終わってるわ。
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jag*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:46）
品がないと思われるかもしれませんが、いつかは日本が正義と認識するだろう、だから中国には言わせておけばいい、といった考えは危険と思います。
中国のデタラメな日本批難で、日本は悪い国だ、叩きのめそうという誤認識がアメリカ国内で高まったのが、太平洋戦争開戦の原因の一つです。
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ll5*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:49）
残念ながら海外では反論しなければ認めたことになる。面倒で日本人から見れば醜い行為でも海外にあわせた行動をしないといけない。イギリスは日本ではないのだから。
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tak*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:51）
皆さんは凄いな〜〜〜
仕事で米国に駐在した時、剣道を近所の子供に教えていたとき、１／３くらい打たせたら、そんなに弱いのか言われた。どこで授与されたか３段の親父が挑んで 来たので本気で良いか聞いて試合をしたけど叩きのめして改めて初段を与えたら喜ばれた。ちなみに４段なので段位は授けられます。
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ara*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:53）
わざわざこっちから仕掛けなくていいだろう。韓国と違って放って置けば静かになるんだから。韓国は放っておいてもうるさいけど。
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ll5*****
59分前（2014/01/06 20:58）
>わざわざこっちから仕掛けなくていいだろう。韓国と違って放って置けば静かになるんだから。韓国は放っておいてもうるさいけど。
記事ちゃんと読んでる？１日に向こうから先に煽ってきたから６日に同じ例えで反論してるでしょ？
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pon*****
57分前（2014/01/06 21:00）
＞わざわざこっちから仕掛けなくていいだろう。
記事読んでからコメントしろよ。仕掛けたのは中国側で、日本はそれに対しての反論だ。しかも中国が放っておけば静かになるって？今まで散々放ってきたのに時間がたつにつれエスカレートしてるように見えるが？
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mwo*****
57分前（2014/01/06 21:00）
いやいや、我々がいやみたっぷりにつきまとえばいいのでは。ただ政府レベルで無視すればいいわけだから。
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勉強息抜き＝ヤフコメ☆ヤフコメ大学浪人生
56分前（2014/01/06 21:01）
慰安婦の件で日本も分かったはず。黙っていたら不利な立場に追い込まれる。断固として反論すべし。
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cho*****
52分前（2014/01/06 21:05）
“沈黙は金なり”は外人相手には通用しない！黙っていれば、肯定したと思われる。徹底的に論破すべし！
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alfa
44分前（2014/01/06 21:13）
あのさ、グローバル社会じゃあんたみたいな意見は通用しないんだよ。黙っていたら間違っている事でも事実と誤認される。きちんと反論しないと事実ってのは伝わらないんだよ。平和ボケだね。
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gon*****
39分前（2014/01/06 21:18）
言い返すのは大事な事、ただ、ヴォルデモード卿にたとえたのは２番煎じでセンスないかも。日本は売られたケンカ買ってるだけだけどね。
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syu*****
38分前（2014/01/06 21:19）
付き合わなかったおかげで今の慰安婦や靖国問題があるんだろうｗｗｗ
お前みたいな意見は日本限定で国際社会では通用しないｗｗｗ
反論しない＝認めた、というのが常識だよｗｗｗ
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相田佳彦
31分前（2014/01/06 21:25）
日本から外に出たことがないんだろうな可哀そうに。何も言わないのは逃げるのと同じ。
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kamekame
25分前（2014/01/06 21:31）
日本はきちんと反論してこなかったので慰安婦像がアメリカの地方に作られてしまった。筋立て反論することが肝心だ。沈黙は同意したのに等しいと日本人は知るべきだ。
set*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:26）
天安門。ウィグル人に対する占領と殺人。チベットに対する占領と殺人。悪魔の人種漢人。
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wak*****
1時間前（2014/01/06 20:00）
きちんとした説明を世界に向けて発信し、あとは中韓の成り上がりで粗野な連中は相手にしないことだ。中韓の低いレベルに合わせるべきではない。
China ‘risks playing the role of Lord Voldemort in Asia’, says Keiichi Hayashi
By Harriet Alexander
The Sunday Telegraph
Sunday 5th Jan 2014 9:49PM GMT
China could become the “Lord Voldemort” of East Asia if it refuses to talk to its neighbours or abide by the rule of law, a senior Japanese diplomat warns
Keiichi Hayashi, Tokyo’s ambassador to London, has accused China of repeated attempts “to change the status quo by force or coercion” and claimed that one recent incident involving a Chinese destroyer in the East China Sea “might be regarded as an act of war”.
Writing in Monday’s Telegraph, Mr Hayashi delivers a stern riposte to accusations made by Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to London, who claimed that the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, was posing a “serious threat to global peace” by “rekindling” the militaristic spirit that helped cause the Second World War.
As a liberal democracy that fully embraces human rights, Mr Hayashi writes, Japan has expressed “deep remorse and heartfelt apology” for the “tremendous suffering to the people of many countries” which it caused. But it has a long post-war track record of supporting peace efforts around the world, and had “been exercising utmost restraint” in the face of threats from China.
When a Chinese destroyer directed its fire-control radar at a Japanese destroyer last year, “the Japanese vessel made an evasive manoeuvre rather than risk further endangering the situation”, he says.
In last week’s article, also in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Liu compared modern Japan to Lord Voldemort, the villain of the Harry Potter stories who eventually “dies hard”, and appealed to Britain to side with China against their common wartime foe.
But Mr Hayashi today throws back the insult, likening China to the “dark wizard” – unleashing forces that will spark a deeply undesirable conflict.
“There are two paths open to China,” he writes. “One is to seek dialogue, and abide by the rule of law. The other is to play the role of Voldemort in the region by letting loose the evil of an arms race and escalation of tensions.”
Mr Hayashi takes issue with China over its own military ambitions. “It is ironic that a country that has increased its own military spending by more than 10 per cent a year for the past 20 years should call a neighbour ‘militarist’,” he writes. “China seeks to instil distrust of Japan among its own people while making unfounded accusations.”
The growing dispute between China and Japan – whose immediate focus is a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea – reflects underlying tensions as China steadily outstrips its neighbours and is on course to overtake the US as the world’s largest economy within as little as a decade. It has raised fears of a major military conflict in Asia that could draw in the US in support of Japan.
Mr Liu warned last week that “the international community should stay on high alert”; Mr Hayashi responds today that “everyone knows that relations between Japan and China are strained” but that Japan is not the aggressive party.
He also gives short shrift to Beijing’s criticism of Mr Abe, who angered China by visiting the Yasukuni shrine honouring Japan’s war dead.
The Chinese ambassador wrote that this “raises serious questions about attitudes in Japan and its record of militarism, aggression and colonial rule”.
But Mr Hayashi counters today that Japan is proud of the strength of its democracy, its respect for human rights and its commitment to peace. In an unusually-pointed aside, he adds that Japan contributes to UN peacekeeping operations and does not imprison people for criticising the government – unlike, he infers, China.
【靖国参拝】駐イギリス中国大使が英紙に寄稿：「日本の行動は世界平和の敵。われわれ戦勝国が立ち向かうべき」[01/01]
http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news4plus/1388628276/
1 ：犇＠犇φ ★：2014/01/02(木) 11:04:36.42 ID:???
■中国とイギリスは共に闘い勝利した ～ 劉暁明・駐イギリス中国大使
『ハリー・ポッター』に出てくる悪しき魔法使いヴォルデモートが死んだのは、魂の一部を入れていた。7つの分霊箱が破壊されたためだった。日本軍国主義がヴォルデモートなら、靖国神社こそ分霊箱であり、日本の魂の暗黒部分を代表するものである。
日本の安倍首相は近隣諸国の国民感情を一顧だにせず、「平和に対する罪」を犯した14人の戦争犯罪人が祀られている靖国神社を参拝した。＜中略＞今回の靖 国参拝は、安倍首相が続けている瀬戸際政策の一環であり、日本による過去の戦争犯罪の苦い記憶を呼び起こすものである。
歴史を振り返ると、戦争を始めて敗れた国には２つの選択肢がある。１つの選択肢は、過去に正面から向き合い、誠実に謝罪して軍国主義を放棄する道である。これはドイツの取った選 択肢であり、地域の安定と世界平和に貢献してきた。ドイツは全世界から尊敬と称賛を受ける国となっている。
もう一つの選択肢は過去の侵略を否定し、軍国主義の復活を許し、戦争の脅威をもたらす道である。
不幸なことに安倍首相の行動は、彼が２番目の選択肢を好んでいることを示している。安倍首相は日本を危険な道へと導くことを決断したように見える。国際社会は厳重に警戒すべきだ。
来週、史実に基づく映画「The Railway Man」（訳注：邦題「レイルウェイ 運命の旅路」）が公開される。この映画は、第二次大戦中に日本軍の虐待を受けたイギリス人捕虜の物語だ。この映画に描かれているのは日本軍による残虐行為だけではなく、それに関わった日本の関係者が自らの過去に苦しむ姿も描かれている。彼の贖罪は、深い反省と悔悟があって初めて意味あるものになった。
中国とイギリスは戦時中の同盟国だ。両国の軍隊は肩を並べて、日本の侵略者らに立ち向かい、莫大な犠牲を払った。あの恐るべき戦争から68年の歳月が流れた。だが日本には、戦争犯罪に対して一片の反省も示さない頑迷な人々が存在し続けている。彼らは反省どころか、歴史解釈の変更を試みている。彼らは世界の 平和にとって極めて危険な存在だ。中国人はこのような試みを許容しない。私は、イギリス人を始めとする平和を愛する諸民族も同様であると信ずる。
中国とイギリスは共に第二次大戦の戦勝国だ。両国が建設に大きく貢献した戦後国際秩序は、人類に多大の恩恵をもたらしてきた。両国は、戦後の平和コンセンサスの無効化や世界秩序への挑戦を目的としたいかなる発言・行動に対して、国際社会と共同して立ち向かう共通の責務を負っている。われわれ両国民は、国連憲章を堅持して地域の安定と世界平和を守るために共に手を携えねばならない。
▽ソース：ザ・テレグラフ（英語）（2014/1/1 22:36）
Liu Xiaoming: China and Britain won the war together
Japan’s refusal to face up to its aggressive past is posing a serious threat to global peace
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10546442/Liu-Xiaoming-China-and-Britain-won-the-war-together.html
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Koreans in Seoul Railway Station watch a TV news program on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine
By Liu Xiaoming
10:36PM GMT 01 Jan 2014
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In the Harry Potter story, the dark wizard Voldemort dies hard because the seven horcruxes, which contain parts of his soul, have been destroyed. If militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of horcrux, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul.
Last week, in flagrant disregard of the feelings of his Asian neighbors, Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, paid homage at the Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Class A war criminals – defined as those who committed “crimes against peace” – are enshrined. They were among the 28 Japanese political and military leaders convicted by an international military tribunal after the Second World War.
The Yasukuni Shrine was established more than 150 years ago, and Asian people know very well how it has since been used by Japanese militarists as a spiritual symbol to launch wars of aggression. In addition, it is deeply offensive to witness convicted war criminals being venerated. These were leaders found guilty of inflicting indescribable suffering on countless individuals during the war. Rightly, within hours of Mr Abe’s visit, there were strong condemnations from China, South Korea and across the international community.
Visits to the shrine by Japanese leaders cannot simply be an internal affair for Japan, or a personal matter for any Japanese official. Nor does it concern only China-Japan and Korea-Japan relations. Deep down, paying this kind of homage reveals whether Japan is trustworthy. It raises serious questions about attitudes in Japan and its record of militarism, aggression and colonial rule.
At stake is the credit of that country’s leaders in observing the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and upholding peace. It is a choice between aggression and non-aggression, between good and evil and between light and dark. Regrettably, what Mr Abe did has raised the spectre of militarism rising again in Japan.
Mr Abe’s track record provides evidence. Since taking office in 2012, he has been talking enthusiastically about justice, democracy, peace and dialogue. But the reality is seen in his actions. He is unrepentant about Japan’s militarist past and makes no apologies for it. He has openly questioned whether his country should be defined as an “aggressor”, and did his utmost to beautify its history of militaristic aggression and colonial rule.
In May 2013, Mr Abe caused great offence in China and Korea when he was photographed posing in a military jet boldly marked with the number 731: this was the code of an infamous Japanese biological warfare research facility performing human experiments in China during the war.
With these precedents, the world should be very alert. Mr Abe wishes to amend the post-war pacifist constitution, imposed on Japan by the USA. Close attention should be paid to his colleagues, such as Taro Aso, the deputy prime minister, who asserted that Japan could “learn” from Nazi Germany about revising constitutions. Mr Abe has worked hard to portray China as a threat, aiming to sow discord among Asia-Pacific nations, raising regional tensions and so creating a convenient excuse for the resurrection of Japanese militarism.
Last year, I explained in a newspaper article the key principles concerning the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea, and pointed out the severe consequences of Japan’s provocations. This time, I believe Mr Abe has continued his brinksmanship by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine; it has rekindled bitter memories of Japan’s past-war crimes.
We know from history that a country that starts a war and ends up in defeat has two options. One is to face up squarely to its past, make sincere apologies and renounce militarism, as Germany did. The German approach has contributed to regional stability and world peace. It has earned respect and acclaim from the whole world.
The other option is to deny past aggression, allow militarism to rise and raise the threat of war. Unfortunately, Mr Abe’s actions confirm that he favours the second option: he seems determined to lead Japan on to a perilous path. The international community should be on high alert.
Next week, The Railway Man, a film based on a true story, will be released. It tells the tragic story of a British PoW tortured by the Japanese in the Second World War. The film is not only about the atrocities committed by his Japanese captors, but also how one of them is harrowed by his own past. His redemption is only effected through deep remorse and penitence.
China and Britain were wartime allies. Our troops fought shoulder to shoulder against Japanese aggressors and made enormous sacrifices. Sixty-eight years have passed since that horrible war. Yet there are always some incorrigible people in Japan who show no signs of remorse for war crimes. Instead, they seek to reinterpret history. They pose a serious threat to global peace. The Chinese will not allow such attempts. I am sure British and all other peace-loving folk will not remain indifferent.
China and Britain are both victors of the Second World War. We played a key role in establishing the post-war international order that has delivered great benefits for mankind. Our two countries have a common responsibility to work with the international community to oppose and condemn any words or actions aimed at invalidating the peaceful post-war consensus and challenging international order. We should join together both to uphold the UN Charter and to safeguard regional stability and world peace.
Liu Xiaoming is the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom
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Tony_Wang
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The current rulers of China are simply not qualified to pass judgement on Japan on issues of “militarism, aggression and colonial rule”, as long as they still occupy illegally and criminally Tibet and East Turkistan (XingJiang), and exterminate the Tibetan and Uighur people and their beautiful cultures in the most ruthless, heinous and barbaric genocide, as they (China’s rulers) are currently doing. They must also apologize to the Chinese people for the massacre of students at TianAnMen Square right in the heart of Beijing not long ago, and for the killing of millions of Chinese civilians during the “Great Leap Forward” and “Great Cultural Revolution”. Furthermore, they must apologize to the Cambodian people for their directing and collusion with Pol Pot (especially the DengXiaoPing-MaoTseTung-PotPot’s collusion) to have nearly succeeded in wiping out the whole Cambodian polpulation and nation (so as to turn Cambodia into another XingJiang (East Turkistan) but without any Cambodian left).
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A record in August 1617 of Ming Shilu, the annals of Ming dynasty emperors, shows that China did not control the Senkaku Islands. According to the record, the head of the Chinese coast guard[49] mentioned the names of islands, including one on the eastern edge of the Dongyin, Lienchiang, about 40 kilometers off the Chinese mainland, that was controlled by the Ming[50] and said the ocean beyond the islands was free for China and any other nation to navigate.[51] The Senkaku Islands are about 330 kilometers from the Chinese coast. This contradicts Beijing's claim that China have controlled Senkaku Islands since the Ming dynasty about 600 years ago and underlines Japan's position that they are an inherent part of this country's territory. An expert in international law, says "We know the Ming had effective control only of the coastal area from other historical sources. What is remarkable about this finding is that a Chinese official made a clear statement along these lines to a Japanese envoy. This proves the Senkaku Islands were not controlled by the Ming."[52][53]
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Letter of appreciation from the consul of the Republic of China in Nagasaki
After a number of Chinese were rescued from a shipwreck in 1920, an official letter authored by the Chinese Consul Feng Mien (冯冕/馮冕) in Nagasaki on behalf of the Republic of China (中華民國) on 20 May 1921, made reference to "Senkaku Islands, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, the Empire of Japan". The letter is on exhibition at Yaeyama museum.[54]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Battle of people in the Ryukyu Islands against the U.S. occupation
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The People’s Daily, a daily newspaper, which is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), referred to the Senkaku Islands by the Japanese name “Senkaku Shotō” and described the islands were a part of (then) U.S.-occupied Ryukyu Islands. The article published on January 8, 1953 titled “Battle of people in the Ryukyu Islands against the U.S. occupation”[55] wrote “The Ryukyu Islands lie scattered on the sea between the Northeast of Taiwan of China and the Southwest of Kyushu, Japan. They consist of 7 groups of islands; the Senkaku Islands, the Sakishima Islands, the Daito Islands, the Okinawa Islands, the Oshima Islands, the Tokara Islands and the Osumi Islands.”[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
A Chinese diplomatic draft written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC on May 15, 1950 referred to the Senkaku Islands by the Japanese name “Senkaku shotō” and “Sentō Shosho” and indicated Chinese recognition of the islands as part of the Ryukyu Islands. The 10-page documentp. 1p. 4p. 5p. 6 (archived at p. 1p. 4p. 5p. 6) titled “Draft outline on issues and arguments on parts concerning territories in the peace treaty with Japan”[64] says the Ryukyus “consist of three parts--northern, central, and southern. The central part comprises the Okinawa Islands, whereas the southern part comprises the Miyako Islands and the Yaeyama Islands (Sentō Shosho).”[65] The parentheses appear in the original. It also says “It should be studied whether the Senkaku Islands should be incorporated into Taiwan due to an extremely close distance.”[66] suggesting the Chinese government did not consider the islands part of Taiwan. The passages leave no doubt that Beijing regarded the Senkaku Islands as part of the Ryukyu Islands as of 1950.[67][68]
There are many official maps published by both Chinas after 1945 that support they did not recognize their sovereignty over the islands and they recognized the islands as Japanese territory. PRC has been cracking down on erroneous maps in both print and digital forms and government agencies have handled 1,800 cases involving map irregularities and confiscated 750,000 maps since 2005. The National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation said “as China is involved in several disputes with neighboring countries, it is vital to raise public awareness of the country's due territory.” [69]
The Washington Times states that this is a classified PRC government map from 1969 and that it lists the “Senkaku islands” as Japanese territory.[70]
The Washington Times stated that they obtained a classified map made by the PRC’s map authority in 1969 apparently listing the “Senkaku Islands” as Japanese territory.[70]
From 1946 to 1971, Taiwan Statistical Abstract published by the Taiwanese Provincial Government stated “the easternmost point of Taiwan is Mianhua Islet and the northernmost point is Pengjia Islet” excluding the Senkaku islands. In 1972, immediately after the Executive Yuan of the ROC announced that the islands belonged to Yilan County of Taiwan Province in December 1971, the description was revised and the points were extended to the Senkaku Islands: “the easternmost point of Taiwan is Taishō-jima and the northernmost point is Kuba-jima.”[71]
The Grand Atlas of the World Vol. 1 published in October 1965 by the National Defense Research Academy and the China Geological Research Institute of Taiwan records the Diaoyu Islands with Japanese names: Gyochojima (Diaoyu Islands), Taishojima (Chiwei Island), and Senkaku Gunto in the “Map of the Ryukyu Islands”. Taiwan and the Senkaku Gunto were clearly divided by a national border. The revised version in the early 1970s, “Senkaku Gunto” was changed to the “Tiaoyutai Islets”. Furthermore, the national border was relocated to an area between the Daioyutai Islands and the Ryukyu Islands. However, in the English index, the name “Senkaku Gunto” remained unrevised.[71][72][73]
The National Atlas of China Vol. 1 published by the National War College of Taiwan did not include Diaoyutai Islands in the map of “Taipei and Keelung” in the first (1959), second (1963), or even third (1967) editions. However the fourth edition (1972) included an extra map of the “Taio Yu Tai Islets” as part of the ROC’s territory in the upper left corner of the map of “Taipei and Keelung”.[71]
Partial image of map showing Senkaku Islands in World Atlas published in China in 1960
A world atlas published in November 1958, by the Map Publishing Company of Beijing, treats the Senkaku Islands as a Japanese territory and described them in Japanese name Senkaku Guntō (Senkaku Islands) and Uotsuri-Jima,[74][75]
In the 1970 junior high school geography textbook published by the National Institute for Compilation and Translation of Taiwan, the Diaoyutai Islands were named Senkaku Gunto in the “Physical Map of the Ryukyu Islands”. Senkaku Gunto and the Ryukyu Islands were clearly not included in the ROC’s territory by national border. However, in the 1971 edition, Senkaku Gunto was renamed Diaoyutai Islands, and the ROC national border was redrawn so that the Diaoyutai Islands were included.[71][76]
During a private visit 9 years after stepping down from office, former President of Republic of China, Lee Teng-hui, once said that the islands are part of Okinawa.[77]
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Ken5745 Phat Buddha
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You call calls yourself a Buddha but it is clear that you are not capable of the telling the whole truth.
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times decided to publish in his blog that Han Li-Shaw’s research published as “The inconvenient Truth" shows that “it is an important piece of work tracing the history of the ownership of the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, using both Chinese and Japanese official documents.”
Mr Nicholas Kristof wrote “The most interesting evidence is emerging from old Japanese government documents and suggests that Japan in effect stole the islands from China in 1895 as booty of war. This article by Han-Yi Shaw, a scholar from Taiwan, explores those documents. I invite any Japanese scholars to make the contrary legal case.”
http://blog.hiddenharmonies.or...
According to Han Yi-Shaw’s research, the Okinawa Governor wrote in 1894 that “Ever since the islands were investigated by Okinawa police agencies back in 1885, there have been no subsequent field surveys
conducted,”
Shaw added “After a number of Chinese defeats in the Sino-Japanese War, a report from Japan’s Home Ministry said “this matter involved negotiations with China…but the situation today is greatly different from back then.” The Meiji government, following a cabinet decision in early 1895, promptly incorporated the islands.”
"In his biography Koga Tatsushiro, the first Japanese citizen to lease the islands from the Meiji government, attributed Japan’s possession of the islands to “the gallant military victory of our Imperial forces.”
Shaw said “Collectively, these official documents leave no doubt that the Meiji government did not base its occupation of the islands following “on-site surveys time and again,” but instead annexed them as booty of war. This is the inconvenient truth that the Japanese government has conveniently evaded.”
Here are some more authentic, unbiased sources to show why the Diaoyu islands belong to China:
1 'The Daioyu/Senkaku Dispute' by a German lawyer Martin Lohmeyer, who wrote a thesis for his Degree of Master of Laws at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand :
http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bit...
2 Much Ado about Islands: The Sino-Japanese confrontation over Senkaku/Diaoyu by Professor Gavan McCormack of the Australian National University:
http://japanfocus.org/-Gavan-M...
3 A Japanese Historian’s View by Kiyoshi Inoue, Professor of History department, Kyoto University:
http://www.skycitygallery.com/...
4 The 2013 Book “Origin of Japan’s territorial issues - Official documents do not reflect the Truth”. by Japanese professor Tadayoshi Murata of Yokohama National University:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/rea...
5 Why the Japanese claim of Terra Nullius is wrong:
Meiji Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Inoue Kaoru, knew in 1885 that the Diaoyu islands belong to China according to Professor Unryu Suganuma:
“In 1885, the Japanese Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Nishimura Sutezo, petitioned the Meiji government, asking that it take formal control of the islands. However, Inoue Kaoru, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, commented that the islands lay near to the border area with the Qing empire and that they had been given Chinese names. He also cited an article in a Chinese newspaper that had previously claimed that Japan was occupying islands off China's coast. Mr Inoue was concerned that if Japan proceeded to erect a landmark stating its claim to the islands, it would make the Qing empire suspicious. Following Inoue’s advice, Yamagata Aritomo, the Minister of the Interior, turned down the request to incorporate the islands, insisting that this matter should not be "revealed to the news media.”
Source: Unryu Suganuma (2000). ‘Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations’
University of Hawaii Press. pp.89–97.
ISBN0-8248-2493-8.
6 Foreign Minister Inoue Kaoru also said “Chinese newspapers have been reporting rumors of our intention of occupying islands belonging to China located next to Taiwan (140 km). At this time, if we were to publicly place national markers, this must necessarily invite China’s suspicion”.
Source : Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Vol. 18 Nihon Gaiko Bunsho (Japan Foreign Affairs Document), (1950), 575.
But ten years later in 1895, Japan annexed the Diaoyu islands and then renamed them the Senkaku islands in 1900.
As to why the Chinese thought the Senkaku islands belong to Japan, this is easy to explain. It was a mistaken identity because the Chinese islands’ name is Diaoyu islands or “fishing” isles, not Senkaku islands.
If someone stole your silver-colored car, painted it black and changed the registration plate number can you recognize it even if it is driven past you? If you say you can then you are a fake Buddha.
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Phat Buddha Ken5745
• 3 hours ago
FACTS -
1. CHINA NEVER CARED A CRAP ABOUT THE ISLANDS UNTIL 1968 AFTER NATURAL
RESOURCES WERE DISCOVERED THERE. THEN SUDDENLY THEY WERE VERY
INTERESTED.
2. JAPAN OWNS THE ISLANDS NOW. THEY ARE NOT GIVING THEM BACK WITHOUT A FIGHT.
ARE THESE ISLANDS WORTH STARTING A WAR OVER?
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Phat Buddha
• 9 hours ago
FACTS -
1. CHINA DECIDING TO ENACT AN ADIZ OVER THE SENKAKU ISLANDS WAS AN
EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE AND HOSTILE ACT OF INTIMIDATION.
2. ABE VISITED THIS SHRINE ON THE 120TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF
CHAIRMAN MAO. THIS WAS A SIGNAL TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO STOP THE
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR.
3. CHINA HAS ENGAGED IN HOSTILE THREATENING BEHAVIOR AGAINST THE
PHILIPPINES AND VIETNAM.
THE WORLD CANNOT TOLERATE THIS BELLIGERENT HOSTILE BEHAVIOR AND WAR
MONGERING BY CHINA. THESE ARE FACTS!
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Ken5745 Phat Buddha
• 3 hours ago
Stop telling lies. China’s ADIZ is 1/10th the size of Japan’s ADIZ which Japan declared in 1969 and then expanded it without any protest by the US or China. See link below :
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
The reason China decided to set up her own ADIZ is to facilitate safe marine navigation and to prevent another Pearl Harbor when Japan increased the rhetoric over the disputed islands, which were annexed by Japan in 1895, as shown by Japanese government documents.
As for Vietnam, the Prime Minister of Nth Vietnam, Mr Pham Van Dong already wrote to Zhou Enlai in 1964 to declare that Vietnam has no geographical or historical claims over the Paracel island. When he became PM of a united Vietnam, he changed his mind but his letter is still in China.
The Spratly group of islands were in fact colonized by Japan but it had to renounce them according to the Potsdam Declaration after Japan’s unconditional surrender in Sept 1945.
China was the first nation to set sail in the high seas ( including exploring the South China Sea) in 1421 with 200 ships and 22,000 armed men to Vietnam, Indonesia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Oman and East Africa. That was 71 years before Columbus sailed to the so called New World which has already been discovered and populated by hundreds of thousands if not millions of Natives.
But China never colonized any nation. To say China is a warmongering nation is another unconscionable lie.
The Philippines only set sail in the high seas in the 17th century. So how can it justify its claims that it discovered the Scarborough shoals first? Go figure.
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• 9 hours ago
WHAT PART OF THIS DO YOU DUMB IGNORANT RA'TARDED CHINESE PRC T R O L L
S NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND -
On November 29, 2012, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved an amendment to National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 stating the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands fall under the scope of a Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan and Washington would defend Japan in the event of armed attacks.
THE USA POSITION CAN'T BE ANYMORE CLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ken5745 Phat Buddha
• 3 hours ago
But last week the US Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, refused to take a call by Japan’s Defense Minister, who called to explain why Abe visited the Yasukuni shrine.
The last thing that the United States needs is a nuclear war started by Japan.
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Canh Humphries
• 15 hours ago
Dx Ydx,
I believe there will be very few readers who will be reading Ambasserdor Liu’s article now unless the readers’ comments still keep coming in. If that is the case you may need to wait for the next opportunity such as when there are new reports/ analysis, new information or new developments.
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Canh Humphries Dx Ydx
• 16 hours ago
Dx Ydx,
I have the greatest admiration for your courage and your in-depth knowledge about modern history. My view is that you are more likely to get where you want to be in the court of public opinion by being a bit more subtle and low key yet still conveying the same precise and accurate message. It is important to treat the press with a little respect. As you may need them one day. Here in Britain even the prime minister has to think very carefully about upsetting the press. And you may not believe this - in Britain even the government cannot control the press and public opinion due to press freedom. Yes the government can spin but it cannot guarantee how the press/media and the people will receive it. Having said that when it comes to foreign policy it may be different and I cannot advise you on this. I am saying these to you as a friend.
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Ken5745 Canh Humphries
• 11 hours ago
The Press is the so-called Fourth Estate and its role is supposedly to report the news accurately, sensitively and without bias. But don’t hold your breathe.
The Press is now so politicized that in the United States most of the major news outlets are owned by the Zionists. Maybe also in the UK.
But you are right its pointless to challenge the Press unless you are prepared to go to the court of public opinion or even to a court of law if there is any whiff of libelous reporting.
Lee Kuan Yew arguably tamed the Far Eastern Economic Review, a Dow Jones publication with its HQ in Hong Kong before the latter was bought up by News Corp in 2007.
The FEER, set up in 1946 by a coterie of Western media outlets, supposedly to report on China ‘without bias’, is now defunct and it's final publication was in Dec 2009.
Now a Chinese billionaire is reported to be interested to buy up the New York Times. Maybe he should also consider the media in the UK too.
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Canh Humphries Ken5745
• 3 hours ago
Hi Ken, you may be right. I have just discovered that my posting last night under the article written by the Japanese ambassador has not been published. I am saddened by this. There was no smears or vicious comments in my posting although the feelings are a bit high.
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Canh Humphries Ken5745
• 4 hours ago
Hi Ken, thanks for the reply. Yes, I knew the press even in Britain is biased due to their political allegiance. So the Daily Telegraph, and to some extent, the Times are pro-Conservative, the Guardian is pro-Labour, and the Independent is pro-Liberal Democrats. Even so if their preferred parties make a mistake they can expect criticism from all sides, including the papers who normally support them. If you know the Chinese billionaire ask him to think very carefully about buying up New York Times. My fear is that after the purchase, fully or a control stake, the readership will drop and the readers who normally do not take sides may read the New York Times with a pinch of salt. And it is those readers' support the Chinese billionaire wants to draw. By all means buy it but think very carefully what he wants to achieve and what can be achieved. I may be wrong of course because I do not have an Oxford brain. There is an article today by the Japanese ambassador to London in the DT. Apparently China and Japan are fighting a public opinion war in Britain.
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R Collier Canh Humphries
• 13 hours ago
Are you being sarcastic? His Knowledge of modern History is skewed. Unless its related to anything bad about Japan he really hasn’t got an in-depth knowledge of anything.
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Ken5745 R Collier
• 12 hours ago
Likewise your “Knowledge of modern History is skewed. Unless its related to anything bad about” China too. And as a teacher this is a paradox.
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R Collier Ken5745
• 11 hours ago
Hey I’m honest in my Dislike for the Chinese Government they have earned my displeasure.
My knowledge of modern History is far from skewed. Its an honest appraisal of events taking from numerous sources not just state sanctioned propaganda and for me being a teacher, I would be a very poor teacher if i didn’t teach my students to listen to both sides of an argument then make their own mind up. This is called freedom of thought and expression something the Chinese government are very afraid of teaching.
You sir seem to be a product of the Chinese education system, there fore you are ill equipped to give an educated opinion.
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Ken5745 R Collier
• 11 hours ago
How could you teach your students “to listen to both sides of an argument then make their own mind up” when you have already made up your own mind about China by your professed “Dislike for the Chinese Government they have earned my displeasure.” If that is not sanctimonious hypocrisy then what it?
Your freedom of thought is nothing but an illusion.
btw I am a product of a Western education system with all its faults and warts.
And your knowledge of modern history is skewed unless you have read the articles in this website and have a chance to reflect on them :
http://www.skycitygallery.com/... （リンク切れ）
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R Collier Ken5745
• 9 hours ago
Why would I want to read more Chinese propaganda.
You’ve again misunderstood what I’ve said. It’s not hypocrisy to follow your own teachings. Just because I disagree with you doesn’t make me a hypocrite.
The only illusion I carry is that one day China maybe free from communism.
If you are a product of western education then use the tools we gave you to formulate your arguments coherently and with facts. referring continually to one website shows you have not researched your argument thoroughly.
Your more than welcome to join one of my classes. You might find it enlightening to think for yourself for a change.
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Ken5745 R Collier
• 6 hours ago
I suspect you are a sneaky Japanese masquerading as a Briton. Any learned person can distinguish facts from propaganda but your mind is like a closed book. And a closed book is just a block of wood.
In your case I suspect you won’t even admit that Japan invaded Korea, Manchuria, China, Indochina and South East Asia and committed unspeakable atrocities or crimes against humanity. Pearl Harbor never happened too.
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Its hypocrisy for you to claim on the one hand that you leave your students “to listen to both sides of an argument then make their own mind up” whilst yours is already made up.
You are also ignorant or you will know that when Deng Xiaoping declared that “it’s not the color of the cat that counts but whether it can catch mice” and “to be rich is glorious” China had discarded the ideologies of Marx in 1978. Today China has more millionaires/billionaires than in the UK and more foreign reserves too.
Btw a western education gave me the insight into a whole host of hypocritical acts of the Europeans and the Brits and the lies they perpetuated about.the superiority of the Whites.
And if you are a teacher of any value it does not show in your present thoughts here. You are a fake.
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Tanaka
• 17 hours ago
Ken5745, Dx Ydx
all no show 12hr
So sad, maybe go China CCP Yasukuni
Zephon go CNN.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 12 hours ago
And you went to play Pachinko maybe?
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Tanaka
• a day ago
Tanaka impress
Kim Jong Un approve
So many support Chicom
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Ken5745
• a day ago
Here is why two Japanese professors say the Diaoyu islands belong to China :
http://www.skycitygallery.com/...
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Tanaka Ken5745
• 21 hours ago
Many Japanese say China belong Japan.
Puyi brother marry Japanese.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 12 hours ago
Many Japanese are dreaming if they think that China belongs to Japan.
The brother’s marriage to a Japanese princess was set up so that when Puyi died ‘accidentally’ his brother would be Emperor of Manchukuo and guess what? Then his son would be the next Emperor and the theft of Manchukuo would have been completed.
Unfortunately two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan and that was the end of the Japanese’s devious plans.
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Dx Ydx
• a day ago
Japanese now deny that Japan was an aggressor in WWII, they deny comfort women were forced sex slaves, they deny Nanjing massacre, they deny the crimes and atrocities... They honor the Class A criminals as national heroes and enshrined the executed criminals as gods.
They didn't do this when they knelt before the American nuclear might and surrendered unconditionally. They learnt a lesson back then, but time has eroded that memorable lesson.
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Tanaka Dx Ydx
• 21 hours ago
Japan no deny next time Japan no make mistake lose.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 11 hours ago
The next time Japan will also lose. Remember China is now a nuclear power.
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Ken5745 Dx Ydx
• a day ago
No use for the right-wing Japanese to deny anymore. Here are the evidence:
http://www.skycitygallery.com/...
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Dx Ydx Ken5745
• a day ago
Of course, criminals almost always deny their crimes, but the denial by criminals is not dispositive. It is the evidence that speaks. The Japanese are therefore working overtime to vote down your link to evidence.
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Tanaka Dx Ydx
• a day ago
Japan vote?
No one party rule.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 11 hours ago
But one party ruled Japan for so many years after Japan’s unconditional surrender in Sept 1945. And now a farmer gets 5 votes to 1 vote for the city voters. Yes that is the Japanese version of democracy.
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Dx Ydx
• 2 days ago
Conversing with the offsprings and sympathizers of Japanese criminals is to deride one’s own dignity and invite their treachery.
But I want to expose one of the lies posted by the treacherous regarding the Nanjing Massacre. To this day, the Japanese people have either denied the massacre or accused Chinese of lying about the number of victims. And here are some of the facts.
According the verdict of the International Military Tribunal in Tokyo, the total number of victims killed by the Japanese during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. However, this figure does not include bodies destroyed by burning, drowning or by other means, or bodies interred in mass graves. According to the verdict of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal on 10 March 1947, there are “more than 190,000 mass slaughtered civilians and Chinese soldiers killed by machine gun by the Japanese army, whose corpses have been burned to destroy proof. Besides, we count more than 150,000 victims of barbarian acts buried by the charity organizations. We thus have a total of more than 300,000 victims.”
Japanese denial of the Nanjing Massacre is as a crime by itself, their enshrining and honoring of the criminals who committed the Nanjing Massacre is another crime, and shall be dealt with justice.
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Tanaka Dx Ydx
• 21 hours ago
Converse Chicom slaughter 65 million best.
Few feel guilt.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 11 hours ago
Actually the Chinese Government lifted over 900 million out of poverty since 1978. Stop telling lies.
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Phat Buddha Ken5745
• 9 hours ago
BLAH BLAH BLAH,,, SO YOU ARE OKAY WITH MAO KILLING 80 MILLION PEOPLE??
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R Collier Ken5745
• 11 hours ago
how many died to achieve that grand statistic if its even true.
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Ken5745 R Collier
• 10 hours ago
And how many hundreds of millions died in the colonies of the UK, Spain, Holland, France, Portugal, Italy and Belgium?
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Phat Buddha Ken5745
• 9 hours ago
NOT COMPARABLE M O R O N!
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R Collier Ken5745
• 9 hours ago
Many died sadly which makes me happy that that terrible period in European history is over.
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Zephon Dx Ydx
• a day ago
It should be interesting to note that the German consulate was aghast at the Japanese massacre at Nanking.
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Tanaka Zephon
• 21 hours ago
Chicom like German invasion.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 10 hours ago
That is like saying Japan likes the two atom bombs dropped in Japan allegedly to stop the Japanese war of aggression. What are you drinking Tanaka san?
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Zephon Zephon
• a day ago
The Germans hid as many Chinese women and children as they could in their homes and their German Consulate in an attempt to keep them from the rape and murder of innocent civilians by the Japanese Military.
A true day (or I should say months) of evil in the history of mankind.
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Tanaka Zephon
• 21 hours ago
German colony China best.
Chicom return colony.
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Ken5745 Tanaka
• 11 hours ago
Maybe China should colonize Japan and end the Bushido and Samurai codes to tame Japan's aggressive nature.
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Phat Buddha Ken5745
• 9 hours ago
GO FOR IT ENOUGH TALK. JAPAN IS A NATION OF GREAT WARRIORS.
CHINA IS A NATION OF COWARDS THIS WAS EVIDENCED BY MAO WHO RAN AWAY FROM THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL ARMY. RAN LIKE A SCARED DOG TO CENTRAL CHINA BECAUSE HE WAS TOO AFRAID TO FIGHT!!!!
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R Collier Ken5745
• 11 hours ago
Maybe if China stopped being expansionistic, Japan would stop being defensive.
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Ken5745 R Collier
• 10 hours ago
Name a country that China colonized in the last 500 years. If you do not know that the Diaoyu islands were annexed by Japan in 1895 then your knowledge of modern history is skewed. Go and read the articles by Japanese professors here below:
http://www.skycitygallery.com/... （リンク切れ）
〔アングル〕-激化する日中「ＰＲ戦争」、日本は劣勢
ロイター通信
リンダ・シーグ記者、ベン・ブランチャード記者署名記事
翻訳：久保信博
編集：田巻一彦
2014年02月14日(金)15:41 JST
http://jp.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idJPL3N0LJ1ZJ20140214
［東京／北京 １４日 ロイター］ - 安倍晋三首相が靖国神社を参拝して以降、日本は中国との「広報戦争」で劣勢に立っている。世界中のメディアで軍国主義の復活だと宣伝する中国に対し、日本も反撃を試みているが、過去の戦争をめぐるＮＨＫ経営委員の発言も飛び出し、中国に攻撃材料を与えている。
日中関係は日本の尖閣諸島（中国名：釣魚島）国有化ですでに冷え込んでいたが、中国が国際世論への訴えを強めたのは、安倍首相による昨年末の靖国神社への参拝以降だ。軍事費を毎年１０％以上増額したり、新たに防衛識別圏を設定するなど、軍事的に積極姿勢を強める自国への批判をうまくかわしていると、専門家は指摘する。
「これはまさに戦争だ」と、広報戦略のコンサルティング会社、フライシュマン・ヒラードの田中愼一社長は言う。「日本と中国は『メッセージ』というミサイルを使い、実際にどちらの国にも大きな被害が出ている」と同社長は語り、ナショナリズムの台頭や経済関係への影響を懸念する。
安倍首相は靖国参拝について、戦犯を崇拝するためではなく、戦争の犠牲者を追悼し、不戦を誓うためだと繰り返し説明している。
しかし、そのメッセージを世界に理解してもらうのは簡単ではない。「（参拝は）中国に対し、日本を攻撃し、中国は良いやつ、日本は悪者というメッセージを送るきっかけを与えた」と田中社長は話す。
＜ゲッベルス流の宣伝戦略＞
日本政府の中には、戦後の平和国家としての実績がいずれ勝利をもたらすと考える関係者もいる。外務省副報道官などを歴任した谷口智彦・内閣審議官は、電子メールによるロイターの取材に対し、ナチス・ドイツの宣伝相だったヨーゼフ・ゲッベルスを例に出し「うそも１００回言えば本当になるという、彼らのゲッベルス流宣伝戦略は、２１世紀の今もレーニン主義が生きていることの証明だ」と回答。「確かに最初は我々も困惑したが、何も恥ずべきことはしていないとすぐに思い直した」としている。
（改行・後略）