米紙またまた安倍首相批判 「日米関係に深刻な脅威」 ＮＹタイムズ - MSN産経ニュース
米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ（電子版）は２日、安倍晋三首相の姿勢を「ナショナリズム（国家主義）」と指摘し、日米関係の「ますます深刻な脅威になっている」と批判する社説を掲載した。同紙の社説は、これまで数回にわたり、安倍氏の「国家主義」が危険だと訴えている。
２日の社説は歴史問題に対する安倍首相の姿勢が日本周辺の「地域に対する危険な挑発」になっているとした。米国は日米安保条約に基づき日本を守ろうとしている一方、日中の紛争に引き込まれることは望んでおらず、安倍氏が米国の利益を忘れているとした。
安倍首相が第２次大戦の「歴史をごまかそうとしている」と批判。さらに「彼（安倍首相）と他の国家主義者たちは、いまだに南京大虐殺は全く起きなかったと主張している」との見解を示した。
Mr. Abe's Dangerous Revisionism - NYTimes.com
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s brand of nationalism is a becoming an ever more serious threat to Japan’s relations with the United States. His use of revisionist history is a dangerous provocation for the region, which is already struggling with China’s aggressive stance in territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas.
Mr. Abe, however, seems oblivious to this reality and to the interests of the United States, which is committed to defend Japan by treaty obligation and does not want to be dragged into a conflict between China and Japan.
Mr. Abe’s nationalism can be hard to decipher, because it is not directed against any country. It is directed instead against Japan’s own history since World War II, which he finds shameful. He wants to shed what he calls the self-effacing postwar regime and recreate a renewed patriotism.
But before he gets to Japan’s postwar culture, he also whitewashes the history of the war. He and other nationalists still claim that the Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops in 1937 never happened. His government on Friday said that it would re-examine and possible rescind an apology to Korean women who were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese troops. And he insists that visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead including convicted war criminals, merely shows respect for those who sacrificed their lives for their country. Despite clear signals from Washington to refrain from visiting the shrine, he went in December.
A confrontational relationship with China at this time could help him convince a deeply pacifist people of the need for heightened defense preparedness. It seems a peculiarity of Japan that those who advocate a greater military posture tend to overlap with historical revisionists. Mr. Abe’s nationalism aside, however, neither he nor other mainstream Japanese leaders are about to enhance Japan’s military capabilities without American consent because they are deeply committed to the U.S.-Japan security alliance.
