2年ほど前、小説『Pipe』をKindle出版しました。その英訳を開始し、約6カ月後に、英語版を出版するつもりでいます
I published a Kindle book titled "Pipe" about two years ago. I have started translating it into English and I intend to publish it in about half a year.
その小説の序英訳は以下の通りです
The translation of the prelude is as follows.
Pipe
The author hopes that readers will understand that this story is a product of the author's imagination and that the people and organizations mentioned in the text are fictitious. (Chris Hino)
December xx, 20xx
Shortly after Sarina Ichikawa, a member of the ruling party's House of Representatives, became Japan's first female prime minister, the National Security Law, which had already passed the House of Representatives, was also passed by the House of Councilors.
Previously, the Cabinet Secretariat had been discussing similar measures under names such as the National Security Council, but this marked the formalization of these efforts into law. The existing law on foreign interference was incorporated into this new comprehensive legislation, which also included provisions for preventing agents threatening national security and the associated penalties.
The law empowered authorities to arrest, detain, and try criminals or domestic and foreign agents who posed a threat to national security, deviating from the traditional police approach. With sufficient evidence, cases could be concluded in court within approximately a month. This expedited process stemmed from the understanding that any act threatening national security was essentially an act of war or civil war, thus warranting the swift resolution typical of wartime. The Ichikawa administration strongly advocated for this approach.
Up until this point, fierce opposition had arisen from anti-Japan parties, including the KDHK, the Kyokuyo Shimbun, media outlets under their influence, numerous local newspapers and regional TV stations, anti-Japan Koreans and their agents in Japan, as well as Chinese and Communist agents within the country. This opposition targeted the ruling Liberal Republican Party (LRP), which had sponsored the bill. The Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice, and the Chief Cabinet Secretary, all leaders of the LRP, faced threats not only to their own lives but also to the lives of their families. They, along with Justice Ministry bureaucrats involved in drafting the bill, were placed under protective custody.
The LRP, under considerable pressure from the U.S., had introduced the bill. Its passage pleased Wight Darryl Eisenpower, leader of the U.S. Republican Liberal Party and the American president. The bill also enjoyed majority support among the American people.
Subsequently, the Kyokuyo Shimbun and associated media outlets came under scrutiny of the law, and the KDHK underwent an overhaul by the LRP to expose anti-Japanese agents within its ranks.
One of the executed agents had fabricated and provided Japanese state secrets and propaganda information to the intelligence services of the Chinese Communist Party and North Korea, respectively. The Foreign Affairs Intelligence Division of the National Police Agency's Security Bureau possessed evidence of this, leading to a death sentence under the newly enacted National Security Law.
The Kyokuyo Newspaper soon went bankrupt, and its anti-Japanese reporters fled the country, some colluding with domestic and foreign anti-Japanese forces to launch a propaganda war aimed at undermining Japan on the global stage.
Since then, the activities of radical anti-Japanese elements have shifted underground, with gangs providing protection. Surveillance of these groups has been intensified. In essence, the anti-Japanese forces and their protecting gangs have transformed into an outlawed, anti-Japanese and anti-American underground resistance movement.
Alarmingly, they have joined forces with the Chinese Communist Party's Chinese People's Liberation Army Intelligence Service, the Russian Military Intelligence Service (descendant of the KGB), the North Korean Military Intelligence Service, and South Korean anti-Japanese elements influenced by North Korean and Chinese Communist Party intelligence.
Their collective goal is to manipulate Japanese and American sentiments through various means.
This movement has become a hostile force against both the U.S. and Japan. The U.S. government, perceiving a threat, has begun accelerating efforts to revise the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, aiming to strengthen it further. This includes potential revisions to Japan's Constitution.
It is within this context that this story unfolds...