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オバマ大統領の広島訪問

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URL;http://blog.ohtan.net/archives/52243886.html
太田述正コラム#8421(2016.5.27)
<皆さんとディスカッション(続x3006)>

 <韓国人被爆者達は、オバマは日本人被爆者たちに謝罪する必要はないが自分達には謝罪する必要があると叫んでいる、と。↓>
 Korean Survivors of Atomic Bombs Renew Fight for Recognition, and Apology・・・
 <日本人に強制的に徴用され、或いは、朝鮮半島での日本人による搾取に堪えかねてやってきて、日本が起こした戦争のせいで被爆したんだから、と。(徴用の話は屁理屈、搾取はウソっパチ。一番最後の部分も逆に近い。(太田))↓>
 As many as 220,000 people were killed by the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan, most of them Japanese civilians. But 40,000 to 50,000 of the dead were Koreans who had been taken to Hiroshima or Nagasaki against their will as forced laborers, or had settled in the cities after fleeing deprivation in their occupied homeland.・・・
 “If there is anyone he must apologize to, isn’t it the innocent non-Japanese victims like the Koreans?” said Lee Su-yong, 88, whose parents took her to Hiroshima in search of food when she was 7. “We Koreans didn’t start the war. Most of us were there because the Japanese forced us to be there.”・・・
 <今回のオバマの広島訪問は事実上謝罪のためで、安倍の、日本は悪くなかった的史観への事実上の援護射撃だと。(お見事。ここはその通り。(太田))↓>
 Many survivors also echo general unease in South Korea that Mr. Obama’s visit to Hiroshima will reinforce Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to present Japan as a victim in World War II, obscuring its role as the aggressor that started the Pacific conflict and committed atrocities across Asia, including in South Korea, which it ruled as a colony.・・・