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「親日派の為の弁明」を読了。
改めて皆さんにお勧め致します。日韓問題は重要なのですからね。
半島近代化における日本の貢献評価に関しては２箇所で行われて
おりますが、問題なし。マルキシズムに基づく考察部分にも特に
違和感は感じられません（私は不勉強ですが）。宗教に関する
考察にはちと首を傾げますね。
全体に批判のトーンを押さえれば、と感じるのは日本人ならば
こそ。一般に罵詈雑言・侮蔑表現は外国は豊か。短絡的な日本
蔑視行動が社会的承認を得ている韓国を思えば慎ましやかなもの。
日韓歴史問題に関し韓国人自身が書いた本としては、私の知る
限り、ベストを争うべき本です。
歴史と言えば、日本を改造し贖罪思想―イデオロギーと言っても
良いか―を植え付けた、かのマッカーサー元帥による有名な証言
資料をたまたま見つけました。
私の怪しい翻訳は遠慮させて戴きます（笑）何方か訳文をお持ち
の方、居られませんか。
米国上院軍事外交合同委員会におけるマッカーサー証言
（委員会は1951年五月三日から開かれる）
STRATEGY AGAINST JAPAN IN WORLD WAR II
Senator HICKENLOOPER Quescion 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 Pacific 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
petroleum products, they lack tin, they lack rubber, they
lack a great many other things, all of 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 largdy
dictated by security.
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