【米国】解放された人質を「犯罪者」のように扱う動きをＮＹタイムズが批判

> > Beneath the surface of Japan's ultra-sophisticated cities lie the
hierarchical ties that have governed this island nation for centuries and that,
at moments of crises, invariably reassert themselves.
>The former hostages' transgression was to ignore a government advisory against
traveling to Iraq.
>But their sin, in a vertical society that likes to think of itself asclassless,
was to defy what people call here "okami," or, literally, "what is
higher."
> > Treated like criminals, the three former hostages have gone into hiding,
effectively becoming prisoners inside their own homes. The kidnapped woman,
Nahoko Takato, was last seen arriving at her parents' house, looking defeated
and dazed from tranquilizers, flanked by relatives who helped her walk and bow
deeply before reporters, as a final apology to the nation.
> > Dr. Satoru Saito, a psychiatrist who examined the three former hostages
twice since their return, said the stress they were enduring now was "much
heavier" than what they experienced during their captivity in Iraq. Asked to
name their three most stressful moments, the former hostages told him, in
ascending order: the moment when they were kidnapped on their way to Baghdad,
the knife-wielding incident, and the moment they watched a television show the
morning after their return here and realized Japan's anger with them.