http://www.excite.co.jp/News/world_g/20150721/Jiji_20150721X836.html
http://megalodon.jp/2015-0721-1107-47/www.excite.co.jp/News/world_g/20150721/Jiji_20150721X836.html
【ニューヨーク時事】米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズは２０日付の社説で、日本の安全保障関連法案が先週、与党の強行採決を経て衆院を通過したことに関連し、「日本の平和主義への切実な誓いを安倍晋三首相は尊重する気があるのか、大きな不安を引き起こした」と批判した。
社説は、第２次大戦終結から７０年がたち、世界３位の経済大国がより大きな国際的役割を目指すべきだとの考えは驚くに当たらないとしつつ、「問題は目標よりも、むしろ首相のやり方だ」と論評。改憲ではなく憲法解釈変更による法整備の手法を問題視した。
その上で社説は、安倍首相が「日本の戦時中の侵略や残虐行為」を誠実に事実と認め、反省しているかどうか疑問が持たれており、日本や地域の多くの人々に警戒されていると指摘。「長い間、平和主義を尊重してきた国を戦争に導くのではないかと懸念される」と論じた。
Japan Wrestles With Its Pacifism - New York Times(JULY 20, 2015)
http://nyti.ms/1KfF4M1
Japanese armed forces marching at Hyakuri Air Base in Omitama, Japan.
A vote in the Japanese Parliament last week brought Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a step closer to one of his most important national security goals — a law that would give the Japanese armed forces limited powers to engage in foreign combat for the first time since World War II. But the way Mr. Abe engineered the victory has caused great anxiety about whether he intends to honor Japan’s deep postwar commitment to pacifism.That the world’s third-largest economy should seek a greater international role 70 years after the end of World War II should come as no surprise — especially in Asia, where China is becoming more assertive. The problem is less that goal than the way Mr. Abe is pursuing it.
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Mr. Abe is already held in suspicion by many people in Japan and in the region because of his appeals to Japan’s right-wing nationalists and because of doubts about whether he genuinely acknowledges and regrets Japan’s wartime aggression and the atrocities committed by its government and its armed forces. The concern now is that he will lead a country that has long embraced pacifism into war.
Democratic leaders are more successful when they can persuade voters to support major policy initiatives and when they follow procedures that ensure changes are broadly accepted. For many Japanese, Mr. Abe does not appear to have made his case or picked the right way to move forward.
