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Prying Open WWII Secrets
Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba traveled to China this week
in a high-level response to the recent poisoning of dozens of Chinese
by mustard gas left behind by the Japanese army after World War II.
How sharply that visit contrasts with Japan's refusal to own up to its
germ warfare experiments on Chinese civilians more than half a century ago.
Cao Gangchuan, China's defense chief, told Ishiba on Wednesday that
Japan must also clean up hundreds of thousands of other weapons
Japanese invaders abandoned.
Now if only the appropriate words could be spoken so that Chinese
researchers, investigating Japan's germ warfare experiments, could pry
loose the secrets they are seeking from the American and Japanese
governments.
http://www.latimes.com/ 社説(editorial)は一番下左
Prying Open WWII Secrets
Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba traveled to China this week
in a high-level response to the recent poisoning of dozens of Chinese
by mustard gas left behind by the Japanese army after World War II.
How sharply that visit contrasts with Japan's refusal to own up to its
germ warfare experiments on Chinese civilians more than half a century ago.
Cao Gangchuan, China's defense chief, told Ishiba on Wednesday that
Japan must also clean up hundreds of thousands of other weapons
Japanese invaders abandoned.
Now if only the appropriate words could be spoken so that Chinese
researchers, investigating Japan's germ warfare experiments, could pry
loose the secrets they are seeking from the American and Japanese
governments.
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136 ：135つづき：03/09/07 13:58 ID:3bXMKAvH
Last month, a group of researchers visited Los Angeles as part of its
campaign to get the United States to release documents that it says
relate to the Japanese tests. That's a reasonable request that should
be heeded.
The late Sheldon H. Harris, a Cal State Northridge history professor,
wrote a detailed account of the experiments in his 1994 book "Factories
of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up.
" He also told of the difficulty of wrenching documents out of U.S. vaults
decades after the war's end.
Harris, who died last year, said that for years "official American
sources continued to cover up" what they learned from interviewing
the Japanese who conducted the experiments. He was told that
documents did not exist, but then got them when he filed one of his
many Freedom of Information requests. The U.S. should open as many
files as it can.
campaign to get the United States to release documents that it says
relate to the Japanese tests. That's a reasonable request that should
be heeded.
The late Sheldon H. Harris, a Cal State Northridge history professor,
wrote a detailed account of the experiments in his 1994 book "Factories
of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up.
" He also told of the difficulty of wrenching documents out of U.S. vaults
decades after the war's end.
Harris, who died last year, said that for years "official American
sources continued to cover up" what they learned from interviewing
the Japanese who conducted the experiments. He was told that
documents did not exist, but then got them when he filed one of his
many Freedom of Information requests. The U.S. should open as many
files as it can.
137 ：135つづき：03/09/07 13:59 ID:3bXMKAvH
Japan is no better. Last year, a Japanese court finally found that the
infamous Unit 731 used bacteriological weapons in occupied China in the
1930s and '40s. Despite the court ruling, the Japanese government denies
those weapons were ever used and bars access to its records.
Japan's Education Ministry also has been appropriately criticized for
ordering the scrubbing of World War II atrocities from high school texts.
The author of one textbook, historian Saburo Ienaga, sued the government
in 1983. Fourteen years later, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that
the ministry had unconstitutionally blocked mention of Japanese wartime
crimes in Ienaga's high school text. That sort of obstruction has typified
the ministry.
The recalcitrance to admit past wrongdoing gives onetime enemies more
ammunition to use against Japan. The leaking mustard gas canisters killed
one man and sickened 42 people in northeastern China last month. Chinese
protests over the incident reverberated more loudly because of Tokyo's
silence.
Japan's success in building a strong postwar democracy would not be
diminished by opening records of its past.
おしまい。
infamous Unit 731 used bacteriological weapons in occupied China in the
1930s and '40s. Despite the court ruling, the Japanese government denies
those weapons were ever used and bars access to its records.
Japan's Education Ministry also has been appropriately criticized for
ordering the scrubbing of World War II atrocities from high school texts.
The author of one textbook, historian Saburo Ienaga, sued the government
in 1983. Fourteen years later, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that
the ministry had unconstitutionally blocked mention of Japanese wartime
crimes in Ienaga's high school text. That sort of obstruction has typified
the ministry.
The recalcitrance to admit past wrongdoing gives onetime enemies more
ammunition to use against Japan. The leaking mustard gas canisters killed
one man and sickened 42 people in northeastern China last month. Chinese
protests over the incident reverberated more loudly because of Tokyo's
silence.
Japan's success in building a strong postwar democracy would not be
diminished by opening records of its past.
おしまい。