【英紙タイムズ】 「つくる会」教科書認めるな! 【社説】

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9これが原文
Wounds still to be healed
For Asians, Japan has yet to take the steps required for reconciliation
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1732864,00.html

(前略)
This is not all Japan’s fault. Its generous postwar aid to the region has assisted in economic development,
as has private investment. It has generally been a voice of moderation in all Asian councils, eager to promote
consultation and co-operation in a part of the world that remains troublingly short of effective channels for
defusing disputes. China’s silence about such horrors as the Great Leap Forward means that Japan is not the only
country in this area that has trouble in confronting its awkward past.

Yet Japan has still to grasp that stilted though repeated expressions of sorrow and regret have yet to meet the
demand for proper atonement. It persists in treating the outrage caused by the Government’s approval of a
controversially unapologetic school textbook as a “misunderstanding” of Japan’s education policies.
It is true that schools have a choice; and true that only 1 per cent of Japan’s schools use this textbook. But
the choice should not be available. Germany does not allow the glossing-over of the Nazi past. Japan, in its own
interests, should be at least equally stern

★原文では、日本が援助などを通じアジアの民主化と発展に貢献したこと、逆に、中国が1950年代の大躍進期などで国内に
悲惨な状況をつくりだしたことにも、きちんと触れている。
ところが、媚中で自虐の「毎日」は、このようなタイムズ紙の主張には、一言も言及していない。
日本の増すゴミとはどのようなものか、またもや実態を晒したね。