レーマン教授からいまだに回答がありあませんので、
今回のメールは無視されたということでしょう。
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英語に間違いがあるかもしれません。
つたない英文で申し訳ありません。
メールでは、私の自己紹介等書いていますが、
ここでは、議論の部分だけ掲載します。
論点は4つです。
1. あなたの主張に内容がない。
2. あなたの主張は間違っている。
3. あなたの主張はフェアーではない。
4. 韓国の主張は未来志向ではない。
Then, I would like to begin to discuss the issue.
(I have just studied Korea but not China yet.
So my insistence is about Korea now.)
1. Your insistence is poor.
You show some names and some articles in your email.
You seem to say “because of NYT, because of BBC or because of Maruyama, my insistence is correct”.
They are not proof of the legitimacy.
What values do such references have?
It is a claim not to be based on the logic or facts.
Don’t you think so?
We have to doubt everything.
That is true?
That is true?
We have to discuss only with primary document and facts which we believe fairly.
Fortunately we are in internet environment where many people can join and discuss.
2. Your insistence is not correct.
You say;
Japanese students are not educated about the modern history,
So, Japanese don’t know their evildoing of the war.
The first sentence is true.
But the latter half is not true.
Your insistence that Japanese recognition of the war is not correct, because of the education of history, is not correct.
This logic makes rapid progress.
Japanese mass media and many books and Todai’s professors almost always say that Japanese were wrong.
Most Japanese believed these messages.
And we said “We are sorry” many time and supported many countries for many years.
Korea criticizes again and again Japan.
We Japanese were silent.
But many Japanese recently has begun to doubt it.
Although many Asian countries like Japan,
Why do only Koreans and Chinese criticize Japan?
http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/05/16/bbc-global-poll-japan-has-most-positive-influence-in-the-world/
クリックして2013%20Country%20Rating%20Poll.pdfにアクセス
(It is said that Japanese order declined in 2013, as Korea and China did a bad evaluation in Japan.)
Now many Japanese are learning and thinking what is true.
Many Japanese begin to say more now.
I read more than 40 books about Korea this year, including the preface of “Histoire l’Eglise de Coree, 1886” by Charles Dallet.
Two books, “Korea and Her Neighbours” and “The New Korea”, are the most important.
Because they were written in that time when the world was moving.
They are documentaries.
We have to start the discussion from facts described by these books, for example.
Now I will show you three URLs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUelX8kBThk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-8FC1fjoA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXIYFvyVKBo
There may be some mistakes but I agree almost her insistence.
I doubt that Japanese government (army) managed directly comfort women with force.
Because Koreans have never shown any evidence about it.
They say there were 200,000 comfort women.
Can you imagine that 200,000 women disappeared?
Why didn’t any riot happen?
Didn’t Korean men have any pride?
(Korean people are very self-respecting.)
I was a child in Korea.
I don’t know the world around me, but I only remember Japanese and Korean worked friendly together.
I don’t remember any terrible atmosphere.
Your opinion is based on Korean people and some Japanese.
Many Japanese people don’t agree Korean’s insistence now.
I think your judgment is not right.
If you will announce your opinion to international world, you have to study more both side insistences.
3. Your insistence is not fair.
In the past, many countries did many terrible things.
The imperialism ruled many countries.
UK, France, Spain, Portugal, America and almost all European countries ruled many countries of Africa and Asia.
European counties and America traded African people as slaves.
I have a question.
How did Europe apologize to them?
What kind of compensation did they do?
Japan ruled Korea too.
I think there were many terrible things in those days.
We never say that it was good.
However, we don’t say that we Japanese were all wrong.
America dropped two atom bombs over Japanese cities.
Many people were died.
Americans say that they used the bombs for finishing the war.
However, we Japanese never accept that the atomic bombs were used from justice.
That is not true.
Why they dropped two bombs if their insistence is true?
America bombed over Tokyo and many cities of Japan.
More than 800,000 people, not solders, were died.
Number of these people is reliable, because we have lists.
What do you think there is any fair reason any more.
War is a duel between countries.
In any time, there is no right that a country kills people.
China insists that Japan killed more than 300,000 in Nanjing.
But, there is no evidence of the number.
I never say that the number is important.
I suppose many people were killed there.
I am saying that your insistence is unfair from two reasons.
If you criticize Japan, you should criticize UK, France, US and so on.
Next you criticize Japan from the one side without significant evidence.
You should read “Korea and Her Neighbours ” and “The New Korea”, for example.
There are some believable descriptions in these books.
You should know their behaviors in Korean War and Vietnam War.
You should know Chinese behaviors to Tibet or Uighur.
Again I never say that we are right like them.
I say that we are not right like them.
I say that not only Japan but also many countries, including European counties, America, Korea and China did wrong in the past and today.
4. Korea’s insistence is not future intention.
Every conquered or damaged people never forget it.
Korea, India, African and even though Japan don’t.
It’s OK, I think.
The important thing is the future of ours and next generation.
The important thing is that we know the truth, because we do not repeat the same mistake.
We have to permit each other even though with disagreement.
Adversely, we never permit Korean.
They are unfair.
They shout “We are right” with no evidence.
Why do they make statues of comfort women in America?
Why do they cry that there were too many women forced by Japanese government without any evidence in European countries?
Korea does only political propaganda forever.
We have never to be confused by political expectations.
