保守系教科書で歴史部分を書いている渡部昇一氏。彼は以下の文書を「マッカーサーが大東亜戦争は自衛戦争だった」事の根拠にしている。
引用はじめ。
Strategy against Japan in world war
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Question No.5:Isn't your proposal for sea and air blockade of Red China the same strategy by which Americans achieved victory over the Japanese in the Pacific?
General MACARTHUR. Yes,sir.In the Pasific we bypassed them.We closed in.You must understand that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people,crowded into 4 islands.It was about half a farm population.The other half was engaged in industry.
Potentially the labor pool in Japan,both in quantity and quality,is as good as anything that I have ever known. Some place down the line they have discovered what you might call the dignity of labor, that men are happier when they are working and constructing than when they are idling.
This enormous capacity for work meant that they had to have something to work on.They built the factories, they had the labor,but they didn't have the basic materials.
There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm.
They lack cotton,they lack wool,they lack petoroleum products,they lack tin, they lack rubber,they lack a great many other things, all which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in Japan.
Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.
引用ここまで。
問題は最後の「by security」なのだが、保守活動家はこれが自衛戦争の根拠だという。私はこの分野の専門家ではないので、論評は差し控えたいが、会議の文書のこの部分だけ切り取って、「自衛戦争」の証拠だと言うのはやはりダメである。
渡部昇一氏は英文学の専門家ではあっても歴史学の専門家ではなく、歴史学研究者はもっと綿密に(少なくとも現物のコピーはとって)解釈している。
育鵬社が「渡部昇一先生が言った。」と文部科学省に言って敢えなく却下されたのは現代歴史学の方法論を知らないのをきちんと見抜かれているから、である。史料検証できないで「正しい」と言うのは烏滸がましい。
素直に歴史学の専門家の意見も聞くことをすべきである。
引用はじめ。
Strategy against Japan in world war
Senator HICKENLOOPER. Question No.5:Isn't your proposal for sea and air blockade of Red China the same strategy by which Americans achieved victory over the Japanese in the Pacific?
General MACARTHUR. Yes,sir.In the Pasific we bypassed them.We closed in.You must understand that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people,crowded into 4 islands.It was about half a farm population.The other half was engaged in industry.
Potentially the labor pool in Japan,both in quantity and quality,is as good as anything that I have ever known. Some place down the line they have discovered what you might call the dignity of labor, that men are happier when they are working and constructing than when they are idling.
This enormous capacity for work meant that they had to have something to work on.They built the factories, they had the labor,but they didn't have the basic materials.
There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm.
They lack cotton,they lack wool,they lack petoroleum products,they lack tin, they lack rubber,they lack a great many other things, all which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in Japan.
Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.
引用ここまで。
問題は最後の「by security」なのだが、保守活動家はこれが自衛戦争の根拠だという。私はこの分野の専門家ではないので、論評は差し控えたいが、会議の文書のこの部分だけ切り取って、「自衛戦争」の証拠だと言うのはやはりダメである。
渡部昇一氏は英文学の専門家ではあっても歴史学の専門家ではなく、歴史学研究者はもっと綿密に(少なくとも現物のコピーはとって)解釈している。
育鵬社が「渡部昇一先生が言った。」と文部科学省に言って敢えなく却下されたのは現代歴史学の方法論を知らないのをきちんと見抜かれているから、である。史料検証できないで「正しい」と言うのは烏滸がましい。
素直に歴史学の専門家の意見も聞くことをすべきである。